Yes, well, I don't suppose Texas ever regularly returned a Communist elected representative, as Glasgow used to do. Although Alex Salmond has ties to some fairly right-wing economically hardline types, the fight in the heartlands has been based on promises that independence will bring a decisive leftwards swing (and by leftward, contrary to the opinion of idiot-features in the Atlantic, I do not mean centre-left by US standards, I mean left by Scottish standards.