Why are Southerners often depicted wearing cowboy hats when they are almost entirely a Western affect?
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Why are Southerners often depicted wearing cowboy hats when they are almost entirely a Western affect?
Those are wide-brimmed hats associated with agricultural labor and plantations, not cowboy hats
WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEELL down here in The South we do things a little bit differently
Because films are written, produced, and shot by israelites who have literally never left Manhattan
This. You can't expect someone who's idea of the "remote" is the Poconos or Ojai to write realistically about flyover country.
Only Texas and the midwest are cowboy states. That's where the cattle drivers and the like were. Watch litrerally any piece of Western/cowboy media maybe, moron?
You're right in saying the Plains states are massively underrepresented in cowboy films but ranching was also huge in the Far West. The cowboy is practically Wyoming's state symbol ffs
The gunfight at the OK Corral literally happened in Tombstone, so Arizona, New Mexico and Nevada are easily Cowboy Country.
I see literal cowboys herding their cattle frequently on horseback when I’m out hunting on the ATV.
-t. AZ resident
gunslinger =/= cowboy
quads acknowledged
The people that Earp and Holliday shot and killed in the gunfight were literally cowboys.
you're right, guess it's time for me to watch westerns again
Midwesterners who dress like that are larpers. A kid wearing cowboy boots and Carhart is going to be answering emails for his dad's company (or changing into them after his shift at Menard's if he's not from money), the ones doing most of the ag work are either 70yo men or Mexicans wearing neon and tactical sombreros.
>He doesn't know about Harris Steak Ranch in California
Don't see them much unless you go to a rodeo. Some dudes wear them to dress up without puttin on a suit but thats about it. It isn't super common, more a loose woman thing here.
To be fair, I live in Tennessee. And whenever we have a fair, there’s tons of tents of people trying to sell cowboy hats to tourists. I never see any local wearing them out of town though.
I live in Tennessee too but I've seen its really about the boots and attire rather than the hat.
they like to cosplay as country
Texas is only place where you can be a Cowboys all other states are larpers
*Vaquero
*Cowboy
Aren't cowboys just ranchers?
There's a little more to it than that. Cowboys weren't just ranch hands, they were the guys who drove cattle across the open country from ranches to the large markets, often hundreds of miles through hostile country. Very dangerous work.
montana and wyoming are more rural than texas
moron
I lived in Vermont for a while and I saw more Confederate flags there than I ever did growing up in Texas or Georgia. There will always be gaggles of morons willing to adopt a culture not their own because they think it looks cool
Do you recommend living in Vermont? My company has a similar job offer I can take up , I’m from SoCal
I wouldn't wish Californians on anyone but it's better you go there than a state I give a shit about
Reminder that White people leaving California are, on average, more conservative than the residents of their new states. IIRC Alabama and Wyoming are the only exceptions. If they were libs they would just, y’know, stay in California.
(The reason your state is going blue isn’t Californians’ fault, it’s immigrants and your own kids)
This is unreal cope. Nobody wants you in their state.
You were losers in your home state. You're pathetic lay down and die losers wherever you go. Nobody needs more cowards.
>If they were libs they would just, y’know, stay in California.
One of the defining traits of liberals is that they don't connect their actions to the worsening of the world around them. They're more likely to think California is shit because of something Trump did and that Texas is just coincidentally a better place to live but could be made perfect by voting democrat once they get there.
also some guy gave me a free cowboy hat as a kid. as an adult when I found it in my closet I found out it was an actual stetson that so many cowboy fanatics like so much
Spent my whole life in the southeast. Never saw someone wearing a cowboy hat until I moved to Texas.
because gayos who live in NYC and LA write this shit
The biggest mistake tv seems to make when it comes to cowboy hats is using straw hats during fall/winter. If it's cold almost everyone I know that wears them uses felt hats. You could probably use a light-colored felt hat during the summer though.
Dont mess with a Texan!!
Which city is the best representation of the south and why is it Atlanta?
no
It’s Mobile Alabama. French architecture and the old Mardi Gras societies like OOM.
By best do you mean should be nuked?
Is Atlanta or Houston the unofficial capital of the South?
Houston is the larger & wealthier city but Atlanta seems more emblematic of “the South”
Houston is the Western limit of "The South". Houston is close culturally to Louisiana, but Texas overall is more "West" than "South".
give one (1) example
You mean there's a reason they're called WESTerns?!?
Maybe because USA is fricking massive has has like 8 different souths. Why do Europeans not understand American geography?
You may be confusing cowboy/outback hats with panama hats, or just that southerners are pretty well represented in western movies, the accent works well for the general backwater aesthetic, and the west was a frontier so almost everyone was from somewhere east.
>Why are Southerners often depicted wearing cowboy hats when they are almost entirely a Western affect
Because no one that writes movies/tv lives in the south east. They're all trust fund nepo babies on the west coast that don't know anything about the real world.
Ever been to Nashville?
I was invited to a bachelor party there but it got canceled because of covid
Pick literally any state besides maybe somewhere in New England and you can find multiple counties worth of cowboy hat wearing hillbillies.
Hell, the entirety of central Pennsylvania is stereotypical hillbilly farm country where mullets and steer outnumber humans.
Why is Kansas not under cowboy hat when we fricking have the cowtowns where cowboys drove the cattle to
southerners are mostly rednecks and meth addicts
They aren't really, what movies are you referencing?
Stuff like Sling Blade is what I think of when I think of modern movies in the South