Quote Originally Posted by Tobus View Post

In 30 years, let's say, I'd like to be visiting another US State wearing a Texas tartan kilt and have people know that I'm from Texas.
It's happening already, at least in the Pipe Band world, to some extent.

When I went to the Stone Mountain Highland Games in Atlanta I saw local bands wearing the Georgia tartan. I'd not seen it before, but now if I see a band wearing that tartan I'll suspect they're from Georgia.

A friend plays in the Kentucky United Pipes and Drums which wears the Kentucky tartan.

A band visited California a few years ago wearing the British Columbia tartan and sure enough they were from BC.

A new band started up here a couple years ago and decided to go with the California tartan.

So anyhow in North America it wouldn't be difficult to round up a number of bands all of which wear their state or provincial tartans.

Many other pipe bands, it's true, still have clan connexions and here locally we have the Nicholson Pipe Band which wears Nicholson tartan and has some connexion with the clan.

Many other bands choose tartans because they fancy them and for no other reason... for them it doesn't matter at all what a tartan is called, only what it looks like.