ABSTRACT

Some years ago, I heard an odd story from my colleague at the University of Southern Maine, Leonard Shedletsky. He had been visiting Glasgow, Scotland, a city divided by class and religious tensions. The Protestant majority and the Catholic minority lived in separate neighborhoods, belonged to separate clubs, drank in separate pubs, and viewed each other with hostility. The antagonism between these two groups reflected a spillover effect from the violent Catholic–Protestant clashes taking place at that time in neighboring Northern Ireland. Their division was symbolized by separate colors representing each group (Green for Catholics; Orange for Protestants).