They had a chance to be independent of the devil's left arm (the right arm being the United States), and they turned it down.
William Wallace must be turning over in his grave.
All the Scottish people had to do was VOTE and they could have had their own country!
Just goes to show you how widespread stupidity is, as well as how powerful the media and propaganda are.
Perhaps Texas can be next Matthew.
I foresee a vote by the lonestar state to secede from the Union.
Scotland blew their chance.
Would Texas do the same?
I don't know, are most Texans "stupid"? 
George W. Bush sure angered a lot of lefties when during the build up to the Iraq War he quipped, "I was the governor of a state that is bigger than France."
In the U.S., a lot of states would be better off not being part of the collective. Texas is one of them.
Texas is dependent on the federal government. It receives $250 billion from the federal government annually, more than any other state except California and equal to 16% of Texas' annual economic output. Until it finds a way to replace this revenue stream, secession is a pipe dream.
How much does Texas send to the Federal Government in income taxes and other taxes?
The Federal Government can't just give money out of their largesse (which they don't have), so they either get the funds in taxes from others or they borrow it from foreign countries (who also do not have a large surplus of cash on hand so the borrowing is in assets or promises).
In 2013, for every $1.00 Texans paid in federal taxes, they received $1.43 back from the federal government.
How did you arrive at that figure? I'm not saying you are wrong, I'm just saying that when you go to websites that are run by political hacks, they often leave categories out of their equation. Also, is this website counting federal money spent on military installations as part of the total?
If you are correct, that means that some other state is paying more than they get. Government doesn't give anything that it didn't already take from somewhere else.