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To: OldNewYork

At the start of the establishment of N. Ireland and for many decades after there was about a 2-1 ratio of Protestants to Catholics in N. Ireland. But with the subsequent higher Catholic birth rate, the ratio is now approaching fifty-fifty.


9 posted on 06/22/2011 8:57:03 AM PDT by driftless2
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To: driftless2

True, but even those numbers (if any numbers even could) don’t support the ethnic cleansing recommended above, or any other ignorant comments about Irish natives. Only two of the traditional Irish counties there, Antrim and Down, actually have a Protestant majority. And without Belfast and its suburbs, likely wouldn’t even have that. Ethnic cleansing, as recommended above, thus would result in the Protestants being sent to the Lowlands of Scotland and to England and the Irish having the entirety of the island of Ireland. And that’s not fair to the Protestants, having been so long settled in Ireland.

Pray for peace there, in both communities. It took so long to get where they have, and it’s more or less lasted for thirteen years or so. Hopefully peace can be returned to after this.


10 posted on 06/22/2011 9:22:30 AM PDT by OldNewYork
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