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Nah not really. There's no cultural affinity for what side of the river you're on, put it that way. It's not a thing, like it is in Dublin say, where you have cultural stereotypes about folk that live north of the river and those that live south of the river, and the two being very different.

If you're looking for a historic cultural divide, it's always been more of a West-East thing for Glasgow. And that was always because of a indisputable difference in living standards and local histories, the West side of the city being where the rich folk lived, upwind of the swathes of industry and tightly crammed housing stock of the East side.

Even at that though, we're talking areas that are broadly both north of the river but on opposite sides of the city centre: The Westend (Partick, Hillhead, Kelvinside, Woodside primarily), and the Eastend (Calton, Dennistoun, actually, basically anything east all the way out to the city boundary).

But then people don't talk about themselves as being an "Eastender". Never heard that in my life, just doesn't happen. Some people might say they're a "Westender", probably as a bit of a tongue in cheek joke about themselves and nothing more. "Southsider" used to refer to people, but strangely that refers specifically to the areas immediately surrounding Queen's Park, and not anything else really (so not Govan, Mosspark, Pollok, Castlemilk. Maybe the Gorbals or Laurieston).

Basically this should tell you it's a very mixed picture here. People take more stock in which specific neighbourhood they live in, if they care about it at all.