The average English person doesn't refer to Scottish people as sweaty socks and your post sounds like quite a parallel to those "little Englander" types. Your post reads like someone stuck in the past. I mean Victorian, Colonial, Empirical... none of these terms are relevant to the current debate on Scottish Independence.
Thankfully as the polling and trends show the rise in support for Labour and the decrease in support for SNP most people seemingly do care a little about policy and not just pure Nationalism. Scotland is more progressive than some people like to think, I can see the Brexit lot and Indy lot being outdated in the next few decades.