A friend of mine suggested to me that Culloden+Banning of Tartan, Kilts, Gaelic, Public Gatherings, Weapons, & Bagpipes+Clearances left the Scottish diaspora with a desire to hold on to those things. If Scotland had been allowed to progress as an independent nation then these would not have been so important to the diaspora. So to those of us in the diaspora care more about these than a lot of modern Scots living in Scotland.