In the event of united Ireland could DUP attract a significant vote in the Republic / 26 Counties ?

Not so sure about that.
Jeffrey Donaldson got a standing ovation at a FG conference. They could definitely target votes there.

My point is obvious. What Jeffrey got the standing ovation for was for what he said. The people there found it acceptable, in other words. If you are giving points of view a standing ovation, how far off are you from giving them a vote?
Not all that far IMO

We know SF attract votes btw. That kinda proves the point.

There's evidence if you look. A cursory example.

https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/rioter-gets-three-years-for-assault-on-charlie-bird/26428694.html

But you still need to use this as your inept soap box I see….

The reason Charlie Bird was attacked - as the hundreds of other people / victims families who planned to take part in the victims parade would have been had the parade proceeded - was perceived to be because they were "Orange bastards", like Charlie Bird.

Still trying to Milk the Charlie Bird non-related story I see. Have you no shame?

Except there's no difference, Loyalists engaged in the same tactics.

The attempted murder on Bernadette McAliskey and Michael McAliskey was a typical example of both collusion and indifference to murder of Nationalist Politicians. The UDA (you remember the ones you said were decent people) enabled some of their rabble to target the house whilst the SAS/army were watching the house but let them break in, shoot two people and escape all before they decided to "intervene"……

Paddy Wilson - UDA/UFF

John Turnely - UDA/UFF

Miriam Daly - UDA

Pat Mcgarry - B-Specials - (Remember they became the UDA/UVF….LVF…RHD etc. etc.)

Edward Fullerton - UDA

I think we can dispense with the, clearly, made up and ill-thought argument that atrocities were a one sided affair. But I await some bumbling anecdote to bolster your claim.

We've covered the collusion before though that you conveniently like to forget/ignore entirely.

The Murder of Pat Finucane was similar in that your beloved sectarians the UDA/UFF were the perpetrators with assistance from the RUC to ensure it went off without a hitch.

Rose Nelson was the same; your local UDA carried it out, RUC made sure it happened.

I did not even bother reading the rest of your post

Of course you didn't, otherwise you'd have to admit your were wrong in your assertions.

If they haven't learnt by then that trying to stomp their feet gets them into a worse position then maybe it is time for them to fold up the tent and let their MLA's MP's and councilors join more moderate parties like the UUP and Alliance.

I think it will be a huge crunch decision for DUP/TUV people. They are largely made up of the Protestant and Presbyterian faiths and would run the risk of repeating history and what Protestants themselves say happened after independence here. Basically by withdrawing from the functioning of the state they will contribute to their own decline.
Moderate Unionism under it's present leadership will have few issues with partaking in democratic representative politics.
Unionists will head for the UUP first and then the Alliance.
I also think a UI will see a further separation of church and state and the further decline of those main religions anyway. Which is something to maybe look forward to, as well.

You tried to make the case that only Unionist politicians had been attacked and killed, and they therefore wouldn't look for votes in a UI (there will be no 'North' or 'South' in that scenario)
When it was pointed out to you that politicians had been killed and intimidated generally on this island - from all sides- and still continued to represent their electorate you are trying to deflect.
I'm not going down the victimhood rabbithole.

Billy Fox was killed 60 years after independence and long after the decline in Protestant numbers here.
Protestants themselves have written about the effect their withdrawal from the functioning of the state had. This has been linked to you before.

Mmm, probably. Even the dimmer among them — and that's setting a pretty low bar, but still — will recognise that SF became much more politically effective when they abandoned their policy of abstention and started to participate in elected institutions.

It's true that SF still doesn't participate in Westminster, but they would be such a tiny presence there, representing such a marginal position, and it's such an unrepresentative body, that participatin would be wholly ineffective anyway. The same conditions certainly wouldn't apply to unionist representatives in an all-Ireland legislature.

No but other right leaning parties might merge with them or rob their ideas. There was pub talk a few years ago that the SDLP would merge with FF and the DUP would merge with FG. Not helped by the below

https://www.independent.ie/news/fine-gael-audience-applauds-as-dups-donaldson-says-ireland-should-join-the-commonwealth/37944279.html