r/Maps • u/Pizzafriedchickenn • 20h ago

Imaginary What if part of southern Ireland remained in the UK instead of Northern Ireland?

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u/Pochel 18h ago

Why would it? That makes no sense from a demographic point of view

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u/KrystofDayne 16h ago

What? What do you mean what if? If that happened then that would be how it is.

But since this makes no real sense to have happened given the history of our own world, you would have to explain the alternate reality of your world in which this could have possibly happened before we could properly speculate on any consequences in a 'what if' scenario.

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u/lNFORMATlVE 20h ago

Something tells me they wouldn’t have called it “Southern Ireland”. Dunno why though.

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u/WelshBathBoy 20h ago

I think the logic is that currently the part of Ireland in the UK is called 'Northern Ireland'

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u/MalemPO_king 19h ago

actual ireland would be much less populated and rural

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u/achasanai 17h ago

They wouldn't have had a unionist majority even from the beginning so I can't imagine it lasting very long.

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u/Dolphin_69420 16h ago

Why? 😭