By Professor John Robertson OBA
From British Social Attitudes 41 | National Identity, released today:
Those who support being outside the EU are more likely than those in favour of membership to think family matters to people’s identity – but those who back Scottish independence are less likely than its opponents to take this view.
Across Britain, 78% of those who support Brexit believe having been born in Britain is important to being ‘truly British’, compared with 45% of those who favour EU membership.
As you might expect, Brexiteers are far more likely to be racist in this sense.
In Scotland, 59% of those who oppose independence say being born in Scotland matters to being ‘truly Scottish’. Among supporters the figure is 50%.
So, to be clear, counterintuitively, those who are opposed to Scottish independence from the UK are more likely to say you have to be born in Scotland to be truly Scottish. It’s not just counterintuitive, it suggests they’re a bit dim or perhaps even racist.
Nearly two-thirds (65%) of Brexiteers believe British ancestry matters to being British, whereas only 42% of Scottish independence supporters feel ancestry is important for being Scottish.
Those who support Scottish independence are far less likely to be racist than Brexiteers.
I used to be an academic but now, in recovery, I can speak plainly – Yes supporters are better, nicer, smarter, than No supporters.
Source:
https://natcen.ac.uk/publications/british-social-attitudes-41-national-identity
Talking-up Scotland 'Albatraz' 
“Yes supporters are better, nicer, smarter, than No supporters.” Well said John.
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There was a bit about this posted on WGD with link to https://nation.cymru/news/scottish-independence-and-brexit-are-different-kinds-of-nationalisms-research/ to which I’d commented ‘Most perverse – Comparing the biggest political con job in UQ history perpetrated predominantly on folks in England, with Scots aspiring to stop being conned by the former….’
Ironic really, given over 75% in England now believing Brexit to have been a huge mistake, and over 50% of Scots believing not to pursue independence would be a huge mistake…
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Always known that , especially Scottish Nationalists , disciplined marching , peaceful gatherings , friendly hubs for idea exchanges , it is the jingoistic British Unionists that cause the riots and mayhem !
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The point which many opponents of the view that Scotland should be an independent country fail to understand, perhaps wilfully, is that what we were voting for in 2014, was for the people who lived in Scotland at that time and who had their principal home in Scotland, irrespective of their place of birth or family ancestry or ethnicity, to govern the country.
A corollary of this was that people who were born in Scotland and/or had Scottish ancestry, but lived furth of Scotland, had no right to vote on independence. There would be exceptions to this, such as people who for work reasons were living for substantial period away from Scotland but, intended to return in the future.
This is quite clearly NOT what the unionists portrayed as ‘nationalism’ either through ignorance or a wilful intention to mislead. This paradigm of nationalism is of the ‘blood and soil’ variety, that there is something uniquely physiological about people who were born or whose ancestors had been born within arbitrarily drawn geographical boundaries. This concept also carried ideas of a superiority in some ways over people born elsewhere or of ancestry born elsewhere. It was about the myth of ‘racial purity’ and ‘master race’. A corollary of this concept is of dislike or hatred of ‘others’ and a sense of having the right to control others not of the same nationality. It was exclusive.
It was crudely presented as ‘hating the English’.
But, on the contrary, it was an affirmation of ‘We’re a Jock Tamson’s bairns’, that ‘man tae man the warld oer shall brithers be…”
Alasdair Macdonald
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“Yes supporters are better, nicer, smarter, than No supporters”. Aye, this has been my experience too. I know many folk who were born elsewhere and have made Scotland their home to be more in tune with the Scottish ethos than many who were born here.
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