Why Texans Dress Like Cowboys

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118. The Republic of Texas has a rich history, to be sure. The Lone Star State.

It's called that for a reason, the were once their own independent and sovereign nation (ten years).

To this day, they have their own electrical transmission and distribution grid, significant infrastructural evidence of their independent spirit. No other state can make this claim.

The largest US state, by far, for more than 100 years until just 55 years ago, there are plenty of reasons that Texas, or Tejas, is as it is.

It Cowboy garb has increasingly become associated with Texas more exclusively than other places, it's not a surprise.

Google results are, obviously, reflective of very modern sensibilities and not, per se, reflective of realities, current or historic.

I'm not going to defend the state of Texas, or Texans, any more than any other state.

But I won't sit quietly when I see what I think is an unfair attack on them.

If nothing else, your use of goldminers as somehow representative of Californians is, to be kind, misplaced. Just for starters, our fisheries and our agriculture have, historically, represented a much larger share of the economic picture.

It's interesting how your OP and the way your represent places with stereotypes reflects your perception more than reality or the perceptions of the people, IMHO.

Chicago = gangsters with Thompson sub-machine guns? Really?

Chicago would be more accurately represented by stockyards and slaughterhouses.

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