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With no PoDs more than one year prior to the outbreak of the Jacoboite Rising of 1745 (so August 1744), how can the measures that sought to crush the Highland way of life following said rebellion OTL be prevented or delayed as long as possible? And what would be the effects?

One answer I found:
the way of life of the highland clans was dying before the purge, the advent of the clearences was driven by the english co opting of clan chiefs into becoming english aristocrats with a funny accent. if you fast forward the rise of colonies such as new zealand and australia and their herds of sheep you could delay the shattering of the clan structure (there would be no money in getting rid of the tennants) what you would be left with would be areas with resources becoming industrialised as in OTL and the rest becoming even more of a squalid pesthole than it was in OTL yeah you would have clans, you would however get simular levels of emmigration as subsistance farming sucks and you need lots of free labour ie kids to even have a chance, producing land hungry young people (in OTL whole families/villages were turfed out) when you get to the victorian age even more faux hunting holiday resorts would exist as they would have cheap labour on hand
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