Polls are showing the Scottish Nationalists may win the referendum and Scotland will secede from the United Kingdom. Save your Dixie cups, the South will rise again. Far as I know, the arguments for Scottish independence are all emotional and sentimental, reviving medieval heroes like William Wallace and peotry by Robert Burns. The arguments against are cold economic ones involving exports to the EU, converting to the Euro. Scotland is the thinly populated, poorer part of England, and cutting themselves off from exports to and subsidies from England is gonna hurt.
It will also hurt British pride, and reduce British influence somewhat, but probably not too much to withstand.
Wonder how it will work out? Up North of here, the Quebecois figured out that secession from Canada wasn't worth the pain. Took 'em 20 years to figure it out, but they did.
Film at eleven.
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