Southern Unionists
From the suggestion of some sort of north-south partition under the 1914 Home Rule Act, the Southern Unionists (in what would become Southern Ireland and then the Republic of Ireland) were in a much weaker electoral position than the Ulster Unionists, and necessarily they had to compromise with their opponents.
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“My mother bore me in the southern wild,
And I am black, but O! my soul is white;”
—William Blake (1757–1827)
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