That's interesting speculation, even though it's off topic. Scotland could be more like the US if we abolished the Health Service, closed the railways, hired black people to do all the dirty jobs, if people shot all the wildlife as well as each other, if there were deluded creationist loonies in responsible government jobs, if we bellowed at each other in an incomprehensible nasal twang, ate garbage, couldn't make tea. abolished education of all but the rich, left the unemployed to starve in the streets, and if it were boiling hot in summer and arctic in winter.