Scottish voters did not reject independence.
It was non-Scottish voters resident in Scotland who did.
They did it because Scottish identity meant nothing to them.
The 2014 referendum did not reflect the will of the native Scottish people.
According to a University of Edinburgh study, native born Scots voted Yes to independence by a winning margin of 5.4%.
It was the 17% of the population who were English and EU and other foreign nationalities which swayed the independence vote to No.
No country in the history of the world ever voted itself to be ruled by another country.