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As an Englishman (from the south-east to boot) who married a Glaswegian I can relate to this. I was held personally responsible for most of the ills befalling Scotland and my protestations that I had been on poll tax demos etc fell on deaf ears.

But that attitude did change and I put it down to the creation of the Scottish parliament. From about 2000 it started to become the focus of the most of the real political arguments, or at least that's how it seemed to me, and the anti-English thing became much less specific. More of a "we don't like the English except for the ones we've met" kind of thing.

As an aside, it's also the reason why I believe that the Scottish parliament may have killed the chance of independence. It seems to have taken some of the sting out of the, very real, ruled from London mentality. At least for issues that actually affected people day to day.