Despite the usual assumptions to the contrary there is a definite and obvious change in voting patterns discernible among certain elements of the electorate. The usual assumption that change is impossible was cynically expressed by a visiting journalist years ago who said of us here in NI that we would literally and loyally vote at the hustings, if necessity demanded, for either an orange parrot or a green one – no matter how idiotically it repeated what its historical community taught it to say and demanded it mimicked.   Though that may even yet be generally true of us, some po[...]