Quote Originally Posted by jordanjm View Post
. The Scottish heritage has given me strength in hard time, and I feel strongly connected.

I believe it was a chief of Clan Donald who said, referring to his American Clansmen, "The Blood is Strong, and 200 years, or 2000 miles will not change that." I believe I read that story on this site. My point is that those of us of Scottish decent who are from outside Scotland hold our heritage as something which is precious, and do not understand the idea that we would let go of a part of who we are.
What he said!!!

Somewhere I picked up a quote, "Scottish blood is only diluted by Scotch whisky".

Also, in regard to tartan shirts, L L Bean has for some time rotated several tartans in their shirt offerings, I suppose as a marketing thing. It works. It took my fair lass about 2 minutes to order one when she found out this year they offered a red Scott.