Why Texans Dress Like Cowboys

[True Blue Door]

50. Same difference.

Only people with massive insecurities are that bombastic. No one who is sincerely confident invests that much energy into loudly telling you how big and tough they are - Texas "protests too much" to the 10th power.

It has a pretty contemptuous attitude toward the rest of the country, and that attitude has never really been reciprocated. Few people in New York or California spare a single thought to Texas, but my God you'll hear some epic rants about New York and California in Texas. Those states are routinely used as derogatory epithets in describing something they don't like for being too "librul." "Damn New York libruls." "California hippie soshullists."

My own inclinations aside (sorry, Texas Democrats, but you've got decades of work ahead of you before I'll forgive your state for Bush), you don't hear a lot about "Texas conservatives" in Blue States. And bizarrely, that fact seems to make Texas conservatives actually more angry, like indifference to their buffoonery is some kind of "elitist" insult.