With drums and flutes, loyalists march in Scotland to keep United Kingdom intact

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STORY: About 12,000 Protestant unionists, including contingents from Northern Ireland, marched through Edinburgh's Old Town on Saturday in an emotional show of support for keeping Scotland in the United Kingdom.

With pipe and drum bands, bowler hats and orange sashes, the marchers said the referendum on Scottish independence, which takes place this Thursday , threatened their culture and history.

Organized by the Orange Order of Scotland, the march demonstrated that the anti-independence campaign could count on a solid, substantial, bloc of votes in Glasgow, Scotland's largest city and the main battleground of the campaign.

But it also injected a sectarian element with a bitter and sometimes violent history into the campaign. The Order is linked to the Northern Ireland Protestant "loyalist" organizations and many lodges had crossed over the Irish Sea for the event.

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