People in Scotland have been revealed to be more likely optimistic about the future - especially Yes voters.
The BBC commissioned a survey with YouGov to get an understanding of attitudes towards identity across the UK.
The results reveal that 36% of Scots believe that the country's best days lie ahead in the future, compared to just 29% who believe they have already come and gone.
However in England, a whopping 49% felt that the countries best days were in the past. Only 17% thought the best days lay in the future.
According to polling experts, the higher optimism in Scotland compared to England was thanks to Yes voters and supporters of independence.
Polling expert Prof Sir John Curtice said: "What seems to be the case in Scotland is that SNP supporters in particular, supporters of Scottish independence, are inclined to feel the best days are ahead.
"They obviously believe that someday in the not too distant future Scotland might become an independent country, and therefore as a result that things might be better.
"You can see the same thing in Wales. Plaid Cymru supporters have much more tendency to be optimistic.
He continued: "Conversely, south of the border it is older voters and those who voted to leave the European Union who say look, the better days are behind us.
"Evidently at least so far for them the prospect of Brexit has not proved sufficient to think that Britain is going to become great again."
The polling data revealed that 56% of those who thought Scotland's best days lay ahead were Yes voters in the 2014 referendum. In contrast, only 21% of No voters thought the future would be better.
The survey spoke to over 1000 people in Scotland, as well as a similar number in Wales and over 20,000 in England.
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