Opinion | Biden's Trip to Northern Ireland and the Power of Diplomacy

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

57% : Brexit -- Britain's break with the E.U. -- fanned the old flames by threatening the unionists' geographic links to Britain and the nationalists' insistence on an open border between North and South.
49% : It's not clear that there is any arrangement that the D.U.P. -- which opposed the original Good Friday Agreement, supported Brexit and continues to staunchly champion all the old unionist causes -- would agree to.
48% : Brexit potentially meant an end to the free movement of goods between the United Kingdom, of which Northern Ireland was a part, and Ireland, a proud member of the European Union.
43% : Some public opinion polls in Northern Ireland have tracked a steady rise in support for Irish unification, especially since Brexit, and more people identify as neither nationalist or unionist than identify with either of those groups.
41% : The problems have become more complicated since Britain opted out of the European Union in 2016, leaving Northern Ireland in limbo.

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