...or were massacred at Culloden.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
People think also that all the Scots who came to America to live in freedom were outcasts. That is not entirely true. Many Scots came by organizing and saving their money for pooled land purchases in the USA. In Vermont's Caledonia county there was a land company which saw a whole community migrate from Clan Graham lands to a replica of Scottish topography in Vermont. I live in the heart of it.
These freedom loving Scots left not only to be free from tyranny, but to have their own land, which could only be rented from the Scottish nobility.
The political movement for Scottish independence today is characterized by a quite different sort of animal, which wants a socialist Scotland. Freedom is not the issue today. As you say, those who loved freedom in Scotland,mostly comprised of the Highlanders, transferred that love to America. It is alive and well in Georgia, North Carolina, Vermont , and other places where those of Scottish ancestry descended.
About one third of our founding fathers had the Scots connection and the ancient regard for freedom and independent land ownership, and its dedication to freedom's preservation. George Washington's mother was a Scot.
Ummm...what’s a bridie?