When I was in Scotland during their last independence vote the Scots would ask what we thought and were surprised when we said that we thought they should stay part of the U.K. Since Brexit, my opinion has changed: if they’re going to be separate, the E.U. is a better ideological and cultural home for Scotland than the U.K. (I.M.H.O., anyways). The U.S. is entirely different: red states aren’t really red and blue states aren’t really blue: they’re a continuum of interwoven ideologies that historically leans slightly one way or another with differences that are insignificant in terms of being able to separate one group from another along geographic lines.