Editing Merseyside (section)

==Identity==
[[Ipsos MORI]] polls in the boroughs of Sefton and Wirral in the 2000s showed that in general, residents of these boroughs identified slightly more strongly to Merseyside than to Lancashire or Cheshire respectively, but their affinity to Merseyside was more likely to be "fairly strong" than "very strong".<ref>[http://www.boundarycommittee.org.uk/templates/search/document.cfm/9335 Sefton poll] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060926213509/http://www.boundarycommittee.org.uk/templates/search/document.cfm/9335 |date=26 September 2006 }}, where 51% residents belonged strongly to Merseyside, and compared with 35% to Lancashire;  [http://www.boundarycommittee.org.uk/templates/search/document.cfm/9357 Wirral poll] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060926213628/http://www.boundarycommittee.org.uk/templates/search/document.cfm/9357 |date=26 September 2006 }}, where 45% of residents belonged strongly to Merseyside; compared with 30% to Cheshire.  In both boroughs, "very strongly" ratings for the historic county were larger than that for Merseyside, but "fairly strongly" was lower.</ref>