What is popularly referred to as the 'Ascendancy', Paul (see the Wolfe Tone link) have settled into the neighbourhood by now; more noticeably in the Republic. You see quite a lot of the 'old' families still inhabiting the Demesne, and you have the Knight of here and Lord So and So of there still knocking around from time to time, when they're not in 'Landen'..., at the 'Clab'.

As far as the working/middle class Protestant is concerned; there's not much difference in status, and discriminition between the religions is non-existant, as far as I can see.

The 6 counties, on the other hand, is polarised... for no good reason, I might add.
Working class Protestants have the same mortgages to pay as the Catholics do, and they have their own unemployment problems, as well; Harland and Wolff, Shorts, etc.

It was Partition that kicked this present (in an 800 year context, I mean) situation off.

Once the 'Ascendancy' were in the ascendant in the North, they denied the Catholics everything outside of that which was required to get them out of bed in the mornings, and in to work in their factories and linen mills.

It was a bit like having your own chain-gang.

This is now the 21st Century, Paul, and like everything else I suppose, the discriminition is starting to be shown up for what it actually always has been.
And that is starting to make a difference.
The World is becoming more politically correct, and bigots and tyrants are being tolerated less (unless they've oil, or something..., but that's another story...).

The Execution of Charles I is not a Public Holiday, I don't think, and the revellers at the re-enactments don't throw petrol bombs at Buckingham Palace after the drunken day out.

The Unionists however, turn places like the Garvaghy Road and Ardoyne into shrines that must be worshipped at, in the name of 'Glorious Protestantism', and all the fun tends to go out of it, all of a sudden.

Maybe the 12th of July should be given a period of quarantine as well.

Maybe In 150 years (because it will take a few generations) this idea of dominance can drift out of the mindset of the Protestant population, same way as it drifted out of the Ascendancy culture in the Republic.

Maybe if we had a United Ireland it would be easier.