Answer:
<h2>Brainiest me</h2>
Explanation:
The debate has been lively since the Scots voted 55 percent to 45 percent against dissolving their 307-year-old union with England. Some commentators have pointed to the strong showing of the Scottish separatists as another manifestation, different but nonetheless alarming, of a revival of nationalism across Europe that has spawned populist and anti-European Union, anti-immigration parties like the United Kingdom Independence Party or the National Front in France. Yet the Scots, like the Ukrainians, or the Catalans, are in many ways the opposite of the anti-E.U. forces. Many of their activists were inspired by the example of a country like Slovakia, which broke away from a larger state but now enjoys the free-trade benefits of the European Union and membership in NATO.
<span>It convinced the North that victory was possible and the South that defeat was inevitable.
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