Sorting Sooty characters by whether or not they're northerners:
- Sooty: Objectively yes. He's from Blackpool, his adopted human family is from Yorkshire, he lived in Yorkshire in the 50s and 60s, in the 90s he lived above and part owned a shop in Manchester, whichever way you slice it, Sooty's a Northerner.
- Sweep: Also lived with Sooty in Yorkshire and then Manchester, plus his dad wears a flat cap and occasionally smokes a pipe. I'm going to say yes.
- Soo: Hard to say. She speaks in a posh RP accent but she could just be a posh Northerner. The two main voice actors she's had were both from London though, but that doesn't definitively prove anything. Put Soo down as a maybe.
- Scampi: He's Sooty's cousin and is implied to come from the same place Sooty's from, which as we know is Blackpool. Scampi's a northerner.
- Butch: Butch is basically a cockney stereotype. Not a northerner.
- Ramsbottom: Even if you know nothing about Sooty lore, my guy's name is literally "Ramsbottom". But the fact is the entire joke of Ramsbottom's character is that he doesn't talk how you'd expect a snake to talk, he has a thick northern accent and his catchphrases are literally "aye lad" and "clart’ead". Plus he's one of the funniest characters in the entire franchise and everyone knows Northerners are just better at comedy. 100% northern.
- Miki: Miki is canonically Brazilian. Could not be less northern if she tried.
- Kipper: Hard to say since Kipper doesn't speak and doesn't have much personality outside of permanently tired (big mood, finally some relatable TV characters), but Kipper was introduced as a friend and neighbour of Sooty and Sweep in the late 50s, at which point we can be fairly certain they lived in Yorkshire, so I'm going to say yes, Kipper is a Northerner.