The tartan for all ‘Hoosiers’.
Although the Indiana State tartan was conceived fairly recently here in Scotland ‘Hoosiers’ have been trying for over twenty years to have one adopted by the State legislature.
Thanks to the efforts of Bob Pate of Bloomington, Secretary of the Scottish-American Society of Indiana, they may be very close to succeeding. Bob spent 2006 conducting a survey of all the Scottish Societies and their members throughout the State to gain their views as to which tartan they preferred and ‘The Indiana tartan’, opposite, was the popular choicer.
Bob is currently helping to prepare the draft bill for the legislature and hopes to see it pass through some time next year.