Alton Towers and Drayton Manor are not in the south!
Neither are they in the north. They are here in the midlands and no one else but us can claim them as their own, so piss off [:P][lol]
If you were to divide England up, perfectly into two halves, both Alton Towers and Drayton Manor would be just about in the north half. HOWEVER, in England, the bounderies between north and south do not meet, in the middle there is a void, a big hole known as the Midlands, filled with weird people like Brummies and people who've come from the depths of hell (or the Black Country as we know it here).
It's not hard to decide between North and South for me, because I hate the crap out of Blackpool Pleasure Beach, and I really quite like Thorpe Park, so my vote is for the south. Although from my point of view, the Midlands, while being poop for everything else, especially football teams, is the best for coasters, purely because of Alton Towers really. But in a poll between north and south, saying 'the midlands' is neither here nor there