Hardline

The BBC assures us those who marked the important anniversary that is Saint Vitus's Day by setting up a Parliament for Serbs in the rebel Serbian province of Kosovo are "hardline Serb nationalists". Note the use of "Serb" (which is ethnic) not "Serbian" (which is civic).

So when (in accordance with current trends) the "free" market has produced a Muslim majority in the former Metropolitan Counties of South and West Yorkshire, and they have therefore availed themselves of the Kosovo Principle in order to secede from the United Kingdom, will anyone trying to protect the legal position of those loyal Britons (of whatever colour or creed) still living there be "hardline English nationalists" (ethnically "English", not civically "British")?

For that matter, when (in accordance with current trends) the "free" market has produced a Hispanic majority right along the American border with Mexico, and they have therefore availed themselves of the Kosovo Principle in order to secede from the United States, will anyone trying to protect the legal position of those loyal Americans (of whatever colour or creed) still living there be "hardline American nationalists"? Or "hardline American nationalists"?

Or what, exactly? And why, exactly?