{"id":45030,"date":"2014-09-08T08:30:51","date_gmt":"2014-09-08T14:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/09\/08\/scotland-the-independent.html"},"modified":"2014-09-15T14:23:17","modified_gmt":"2014-09-15T20:23:17","slug":"scotland-the-independent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/09\/08\/scotland-the-independent.html","title":{"rendered":"Scotland the Independent?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have a little bit of skin in the game — relatives living (at least part time) in Scotland, and business travel takes me to Glasgow every year or two (in fact, I'll be there in early October, after the vote). But I honestly don't have a strong feel for the history nor current issues driving the vote one way or the other.<\/p>\n

The American in me likes to think that it's better to learn to work together, rather than breaking apart. The atomization of Europe's ethnic nations over the past century has often happened for legitimate reasons (usually political, social, cultural, and economic dominance by a majority over a minority), but sometimes they've seemed drive more by desires to identify with a smaller tribe, whether it makes sense or not.<\/p>\n

Scotland is, for various reasons, being given an all-or-nothing alternative, whereas a greater devolution of authority or creation of a federal system (as in the US) could accomplish much of what I suspect the middle ground wants. It will be interesting to see what they decide, and what that then means.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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\nWhat Scottish Independence Might Mean for a Less-Great Britain
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\nThe economic effects could be minor; the cultural ones, more profound.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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I have a little bit of skin in the game — relatives living (at least part time) in Scotland, and business travel takes me to Glasgow every year or two (in fact, I'll be there in early October, after the vote). 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