I heard from somewhere that lowland Scots were mostly aristocrats and that the highlanders were the working classes. Is there any truth to this or is it just nonsense?
As already said, total nonsense.
The Highlanders were Gaelic-speaking descendants of the Celts and Vikings, while the Lowlanders were English-speaking descendants of Celts, Vikings and Anglo-Saxons.
Well considering the picts pretty much merged with the Gaels. I would guess the highlanders also had a lot more pict in them, considering the geography.
It was primarily an ethnic division rather than a class division.
And religion to a lesser extent.
They also seem to have a remarkable talent for ignoring basic economic and political realities. It makes debating with them utterly pointless.
Yeah I find this too. There was a thread on POFO where we argued about this with RTF I think and he kept insisting EVERYTHING that Salmond wanted, he would get.
I mean literally.
- being in the top 5 richest countries
- getting into EU and getting money from them (despite being norway style rich).
- getting out of EU fishery's policy
- keeping the pound
- getting all the oil and 9% of the debt
- 16 old to vote in referendum
- any option scots want to be in that referndum
- Energy independance by 2020 (first in the western world)
All these things would come true and there was no doubt in his mind ..