Already standing for very different things on either side of the Border, the big reason why people in Northern Ireland have voted for it is the big reason why people in the Republic have not and, having been reminded of it, will not.
Partition was more than 90 years ago. It predated the creation of social democracy in the United Kingdom, including in Northern Ireland.
Therefore, the Republic has never had a party like the SDLP, not even the small Irish Labour Party before the Democratic Left crowd Blairified it. What would such a party have been defending?
There is still no NHS in the Republic. The two parts of Ireland are that different.
That there are two parts of Ireland is now organic; in one form or another, the situation has become permanently inevitable and inevitably permanent.
Anyone who still doubts that need only keep an eye on Sinn Féin in the next few years. Or even in the next few months.
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