Yeah a Geordie is someone born in Newcastle. A mackem is someone born in Sunderland.
Im fairly sure that the word mackem was born out of the shipyards. A massive part of our industrial history has to do with the shipyards. My grandad used to work on them and so did alot of people up here. We used to make the ships on Wearside in Sunderland and then take them over the Tyne to Newcastle where they would work on them further and fit them out. But because of our accent we used to "mack 'em and tack 'em."
EDIT: Me? I dont support Wigan. And im definitely not a Smoggie either. :-P Not even people from Middlesbrough want to support Middlesbrough though.
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