I think it makes us sound stupid and a little illiterate. In every use-case (official and otherwise) the slogan of “We the north” is not even grammatically correct.
Every time I see it somewhere there’s always an urge inside of me to marker in “ARE” in between the slogan.
EDIT: it’s from some basketball slogan from the Toronto Raptors as part of some campaign that stuck. I think it’s lame due to its grammatical error in the way that they use it.
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It’s just a specification of the subject. “we, the north, believe blah blah” is specifying who the subject “we” is. “we are the north” is a complete sentence on its own. It states we = North since “is” is an equalizing noun and it can stand alone without anything else. “we, the north” is almost a compound subject but it’s only a subject with a clarification, Similar to “we, the people, blah blah”. It’s not that it’s stupid or incorrect, they’re two different things.
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