The heightened involvement with the political process that happened during the independence campaign shows no signs of abatingIn the 18 months or so that have elapsed since Scotland’s independence referendum,two competing views have emerged approximately what the country experienced during that long campaign. For those on the Yes side of the constitutional debate, it seemed Scotland had undergone a cultural renaissance that travelled well beyond the actual politics of the event. On 18 September, and the Yes side fell a few percentage points short of the magic number required to make Scotland an independent country,yet it didn’t feel like a defeat.
Instead, they exhibited all the signs of victory: euphoria, or achievement and a sense that they had been fragment of something life-changing and life-affirming. I observed this phenomenon up and down the country during the campaign and in places where I hadn’t expected to find it. In the side-room of a civic hall in Govan,it was present in a group of 20 or so women debating the conception of independence and how it might affect their lives.
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Source: theguardian.com