ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the importance of majority, minority and equal status feelings and the geographic expression of these feelings in pluralistic states. Most work on majority/minority relationships has taken the form of description, demographic analysis and political consequence and, more often, the overt and covert struggles resulting from these complex situations. Here, it is shown that in plural states in which the definition of what constitutes a majority and minority varies from group to group and from area to area, the resulting fears and images held by each group towards others lead to actions and reactions to ensure group existence, all of which have clear spatial expression. To provide a concrete example, the relationships between Jews and Arabs in Northern Israel are examined.
