Why Texans Dress Like Cowboys

[True Blue Door]

23. You're missing the point by miles.

I'm not saying Texas is all one thing or all another, only that this phenomenon only exists there. I.e., that Californians don't dress like gold miners the way that Texans dress like cowboys.

And what's more, this is a relatively recent thing. Texans in the 1920s did not by and large wallow in cowboy myths. It's only since the state became radically, militantly conservative (rather than just parochial, as it had been) starting in the 1950s onward under the growing influence of the oil barons that it started rewriting its own cultural history in these bombastic terms and integrating these silly shibboleths into everyday life.

Now, I'm not claiming that everyone does it, merely that it's a normal feature of life that no one looks twice at.