To believe in 1707 or 2008 that Scotland is best served by being a powerful and willing part of a powerful state (Britain)is hardly being a traitor.
The vast majority of Scots want Scotland to remain in the UK for the reasons given above, and you will find no more proud patriotic people than the Scots...
And neither were those who opposed the romantic, reductive tosh of Jacobitism in 1715 or 1745-46.Most of Scotland opposed Charlie and his father’s earlier attempt, as they did not wish a return to the chaos of the 1600’s, with a civil war and numerous conflicts and oppressions by the Catholic Stuart monarchs.
As one Scots historian has correctly said, “the sound of the last shot at Culloden was that of Scotland and the rest of Britain finally entering the modern age”.
And a’ the romantic nonsense aboot Charlie and a’ tha Jacobites willnae change that, ma friend...
That's gotta' have a reason ya' know.