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    It literally has a quote on it about Northern Ireland. Although it would serve as both a “we love the King” mural as well, people here are pretty patriotic (which is a normal pattern in anywhere in the world where national identity gets threatened, like mainland UK in WWII or cold war era America)

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      Really depends where you are for people to be “patriotic” I live in a mixed area outside lisburn and most people around it couldn’t give a fuck about the royal family or British shite, go into a nationalist area and it’ll be the same. Places like sandy row or shankill obviously will have more people who are proud to be British and fans of the royal family.

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        In a mixed area though obviously wouldn’t have it because it’s mixed. Same with nationalist.

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          Right, so the majority of people here aren’t patriotic. Recent studies/polls shows that most people here don’t identify as British so that would be those that identify as Irish/Northern Irish and they’re unlikely to be patriotic to Britain.

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            That’s not what the 2021 census says. 31% identify as British only and 19% as Northern Irish only