Residents of Wirral Borough associate themselves more with Merseyside than Cheshire according to a poll done in the 2000s .
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 '' .
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