He defended the unionists who wanted to march through Catholic neighborhoods this summer, exacerbating tensions between the two communities.
And in some poor Catholic neighborhoods, male unemployment is 60 to 80 percent.
But to pick their Catholic neighborhood and its biggest celebration as a place to make their point is another matter, they said.
When police banned a march through a Catholic neighborhood, Protestants rioted for four days.
In some Catholic neighborhoods here, mill unemployment is as much as 60 percent.
When the police blocked it from entering a Catholic neighborhood, the Protestants protested.
He also pointed out that there was graffiti in Catholic neighborhoods that threatened his life.
Fishtown is known as a working class Irish Catholic neighborhood.
Until recently, it was a middle to upper-middle class and heavily German Catholic neighborhood.
Small children in Catholic neighborhoods will instinctively reach for rocks to throw when they see a police van come into view.