Sectarianism in Scotland: The Last Decade (Chapter Five)

class Protestants who are being discriminated against, portrayed as boozy, hate-filled louts by the media. There is some truth in this, but many working class Protestants are still going on Orange marches, singing sectarian songs and perpetrating sectarian violence. The new generation has no sympathy with these views and traditions, in fact anyone brought up outside the central south western 'sectarian zone' generally disapproves of the religious argument.

REFERENCES 1)G. Walker – 'Identity Questions in Contemporary Scotland: Faith, Football and Future Prospects', in Contemporary British History, Vol.15, No.1, (Spring, 2001) p.44 2)G. Walker – 'There's not a team like the Glasgow Rangers: football and religious identity in Scotland', in G. Walker and T. Gallagher (ed) – Sermons and Battle Hymns: Protestant Popular Culture in Modern Scotland, (Edinburgh, 1990) p.147 3)G. Walker – 'Identity Questions in Contemporary Scotland: Faith, Football and Future Prospects', in Contemporary British History, Vol.15, No.1, (Spring, 2001) p.52

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