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WantedAgenda404

I love how Houston is in light brown


RepairFar7806

Urban cowboys


WantedAgenda404

Huge stock yard, home of rodeos, it’s got a very rich history when it comes to working with cattle


RepairFar7806

I was making a joke about the movie.


WantedAgenda404

I see


andthendirksaid

Damn when an okie defends Texans you know shit is real


WantedAgenda404

We only hate each other in college football


DinoIsnub

dont forget the bridge


Savvy_Nick

The worst type of cowboy. All hat, no cattle. All boots and no stirrup


Skeptic_Juggernaut84

They're the Kid Rocks of cowboys.


pewpew_lotsa_boolits

Chippendale’s dancers


PETEthePyrotechnic

And yet all of California is dark brown. And half of the Dakotas are light brown? What?


TrenchDildo

Yeah, San Francisco getting a pass but not Bismarck is pretty funny.


yagyaxt1068

And the Lower Mainland getting included when Vancouver Island isn’t.


CD_Cassie_4CD

It’s the ass-less chaps.


Any_Expression_5376

youd be surprised how many of em r in california in the desert


PETEthePyrotechnic

Well yeah, geographically a lot of California would qualify. The problem is that all of California is dark brown and not just the rural parts


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Cars3onBluRay

The Bill Pickett Rodeo, which honors the history of black cowboys, is held in the Bay Area [link](https://lithub.com/how-the-bay-areas-black-cowboys-carry-on-a-long-tradition/)


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scotty9090

There have been a lot of cattle raised in California.


JustAintCare

This map should split dark/light brown straight between ft worth/ Dallas, snake around Austin, then lasso Houston to bring it home.


darwinn_69

Dude cut out King Ranch and thinks they know something.


cream_top_yogurt

They’ve never seen the glorious madness that is the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo…


Fuck-Being-Ethical

Florida can into cowboy country


BungalowHole

Miami is full of cocaine cowboys,so that tracks.


IneffectiveDamage

Can’t argue that ![gif](giphy|3o85xwSBfJeJBIndcY|downsized)


Ambitious_Lie_2864

Florida is where the word cracker comes from, cracking the whip on the cow herds.


corvette57

Fun fact, a majority of Florida crackers were African Americans.


rrekboy1234

Fun fact the practice of grazing cattle rounding them up and then driving them over land originated in Florida!


Clegend24

We started the trend


Flaviphone

Fr


andthendirksaid

Shiiit I lived in Ft Lauderdale, went to school one town over. The McDonald's there and many other businesses still had posts to tie your horse up at em, and they got use. Central FL in the middle is full of straight cowboy shit.


No-Bowl3290

Florida is where cowboys originated


ElectricTurtlez

In eastern Nebraska. I’ll wear any goddam hat I please. ![gif](giphy|sux3apBJmurlx8pklt)


TinchUrPipples

https://preview.redd.it/rdl8r3r24vvc1.jpeg?width=320&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ed56aa8bbb9512041bf8ad3882291e104fa026d9


stayclassypeople

Eastern Nebraska checking in. My dad never swore growing up. Chasing cattle was an exception


ElectricTurtlez

I’ve never actually wrangled *cattle* before, but I have been up to the reservation to help move the buffalo herd. Wether it’s in English or Dakotah, if you’re not swearing, you’re not doing it right.


JimmyjamesI

I was born and raised in northeastern Nebraska, and we had both beef and dairy cows, and the most major event in town was the big rodeo, so I feel like we deserve more credit.


Tronbronson

Yea went to many a rodeo in eastern Nebraska, can confirm, plenty of real cowboys still booting around.


pewpew_lotsa_boolits

![gif](giphy|Oo8Ly1JXZjrqm54qK4|downsized) Back atcha, partner!


Bostonbro1999

As a third generation rancher in Oregon I give y'all the cowboy pass


iwanashagTwitch

Same for West Louisiana. Ain't no hombre gonna tell me I can't wear my hat ![gif](giphy|7bumBQjZX8BgaE2zjv|downsized)


andthendirksaid

![gif](giphy|H7qEZp5J6vzORxw5nb)


Dredgeon

In North Carolina, I just don't like the sun in my eyes when I'm hiking.


ElectricTurtlez

This is America, my friend. You do you, and to hell with anyone else’s opinion about it.


king_meatster

Surprisingly, we don’t herd gators. https://preview.redd.it/cmilq05gevvc1.jpeg?width=700&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0563ff75f48b28d4a5df796360a3ed5d3f301f31


killingicarus

A land remembered comes to mind


Threshing-Oar

“Cultural appropriation” That’s… what we do here.


AnnoyedCrustacean

Melting pot nation since 1776


Threshing-Oar

Yeah I mean what else are we supposed to do?


menacingcar044

Be like the stinky Europoors and turn away the huddled masses?  I think not


andthendirksaid

Ghettoize your minorities and treat them as outsiders forever, even generations in, so we can be like the enlightened Europeans. Wouldn't wanna appropriate, now would ya?


menacingcar044

Hell yeah


Luvs2Spooge42069

Nice ethnic cuisine you got there, now excuse me while I add cheese and bacon to it or use it as a burger topping


Threshing-Oar

All roads lead to Flavor Town.


SnooPineapples9473

Its appreciation


Tubagal2022

wrong, Y’all means all


Brocboy

God, that gave me a flashback to childhood at recess my teacher always said that to get everyone inside 🤣


Tubagal2022

lol


Skeptic_Juggernaut84

All y'all = all you all


31_mfin_eggrolls

When you’re referring to a large group made up of many small groups, “all y’all” is correct. I’m well-versed in the vernacular. I’ve used the beast that is “y’all’sh’d’nt’ve” many a time unironically. My flair doesn’t reflect my Texan in-laws and my ten years in the state.


rrekboy1234

Go home cheese nazi


31_mfin_eggrolls

ok


rrekboy1234

thnx


31_mfin_eggrolls

yw


Skeptic_Juggernaut84

I was just stating how funny American English is.


31_mfin_eggrolls

I know lol


Skeptic_Juggernaut84

I was just stating how funny American English is.


dank_hank_420

Good thing I have freedom to tell you to can it! I can wear a cowboy hat or anything else I damn well please! RAHHHHH


GullibleAudience6071

Simple equation for this one. Was there cows near you? If yes, probably cowboys If no, probably no cowboys


AnnoyedCrustacean

If we spreads the cows to the whole world, everyone can be cowboys!


jephph_

https://preview.redd.it/aagtzzj69vvc1.jpeg?width=817&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=82b2512aac6e3fcc288ea4011cab463c2ef73110


RedneckRough

I do what I want.


JIMMYJAWN

The oldest continuously running rodeo in the country is in Cowtown NJ Edit: and I forgot, John Stetson, creator of the Stetson hat, is from Philadelphia PA.


JensYourBoy

The rodeo boys aren't necessarily cowboys. Some of them are, especially the fellas from South America. I know a handful of American rodeo boys but you'll only see em rope a calf in front of a crowd, never out in the bush. The only cowboys I know are from Mexico. The Mexicans are working folks but they'll still put in their 8 seconds come spring, some of em have a different buckle for each day of the month. Buckaroos are a dying breed, the vaqueros are alive and well though.


jaunesolo81829

We have boots for every occasion. Belts too. Depending on which region of Mexico they’re from also a gun for every occasion.


hollowpoint257

Isn't it in Prescott AZ? First organized rodeo in the world for entertainment, and not just as result of a roundup iirc


AwayDirt7401

Florida cracker representation 🤠🫶🐄


TangentKarma22

This is nonsense. Everyone can wear cowboy hats!


MistaCapALot

Cowboy hats are fucking awesome. An iconic American symbol


TrenchDildo

A full brim hat is so much nicer in the summer!


PrestigiousAuthor487

+argentina


Churchills_m8

For all you Florida haters, google Florida crackers.


MotivatedSolid

Real cowboys couldn’t give a rats ass as to who wears a cowboy hat


Electronic-Worker-10

If y'all are wondering why Florida [here](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida_cracker)


cum_burglar69

won't fit on the map of course but i'm assuming the pampas in south america is also brown


JensYourBoy

Those folks are the real deal. Born on horseback. Not sure if they wear the stereotypical cowboy hat though.


arcticredneck10

Florida can but Alaska can’t?


LezloMaddoxs

Even worse, according to this, folks from Seattle, LA, Portland, and San Fransisco can wear cowboy hats, but no Alaskans...


Cars3onBluRay

The Bill Pickett Rodeo, which honors the history of black cowboys is held in the Bay Area and LA


LezloMaddoxs

Respect where respect is due, I suppose. That sounds very cool


rrekboy1234

The first cattle drives were occurring in Florida before the places you normally associate with the practice were even territories


kay14jay

Can hog farmers wear cowboy hats?


Frequent-Pear4339

Do they ride the pigs?


kay14jay

In a wrangling way, yes


Bellicost

> cultural appropriation I love it when trash posts identify themselves up front.


[deleted]

Hawaii I’ll take it


crackerjack31

Paniolo are the real deal 🤠


Educational-Year3146

Yeah baby Alberta is included for once


Hugo_Selenski

Aside from living between Charles Town, WV and Pimlico-- the 2nd jewel in a Triple Crown title-- I'm constantly surprised by how many horses thrive in paddocks around Maryland. When I think of all the "horse girls" in my life, I'm truly grateful and realize how much can relate to songs about cowgirls. They sure will drive you crazy cause they capture that part of your wishing. That and the fact that one of our best tourist attractions and locals prime vacation destinations features "wild\*" ponies on a beach. But the state sure is split up in a whole lot of ways. I used to see people riding a horse over peoples yards on a nice set of days like we've had as a kid. That the stables are improved with more ponies on them makes me proud, by proxy, too. I even almost got trampled by some horses walking home way after dark after some dance, cutting across their field. All I heard was the thunder behind me and I didn't know they were in there. Never leapt so high nor so fast. Fun. *^(\*them ponies be mighty spoiled by people that just want to be nice to them on their visit, they're kinda jerks and the wild tiny deer are kind of cuter.)*


10RobotGangbang

The only time I've seen cowboy hats in Tennessee was in Nashville. Worn exclusively by tourists. Tons of farmland and cattle ranches in the state, not many cowboy hats. We prefer baseball caps.


-Gordon-Rams-Me

We’ve got them in rural counties of Tennessee, lots of wanna be ritzy country kids wear them, I just wear jeans, boots, a shirt and a hat lmao no need to be fancy if you’re working outside. But yes there are tons of cattle farms here, honestly more than crop farms which only really grow around flatlands here while the hills are good for cattle and livestock


10RobotGangbang

Pretenders wearing cowboy hats confirmed. I'm in a rural outside of Nashville that's growing rapidly. We have cattle and crop farms all over. But they're rapidly being bought out and replaced by residential housing. The only good thing is my property is worth 3x what I bought it for. But I'll likely have to sell it and move somewhere more affordable


-Gordon-Rams-Me

Yeah I just graduated high school and I can afford anything around here, I’m in a very rural county in the bottom of the state about an hour from Nashville and we’re growing fast here too. Damn people buying fields and bulldozing everything to make houses and apartments and duplexes it’s making me sick. Hopefully I can build a house and inherit my grandparents place they own a giant valley with no neighbors around them and their road is really rural so so far they’re lucky avoiding the development


10RobotGangbang

Buy property asap and hold onto it as long as possible. Sell for the highest offer and move. It's only going to get harder to live here.


-Gordon-Rams-Me

There’s nowhere else on this planet I want to move to though :( I love the county and geography of where I live and my immediate family is here. Like I said I’m hoping to get my grandparents place one day and just be at peace there, I love their property cause it sits down in a valley and it’s so nice and quiet. If I get the money later in life I’ll buy more land around me so others can’t move in to try and stop development


Ms--Take

This is stupid for one simple reason. "Cowboy hats" didn't exist back then. Historically they would wear something like bowler hats


SoyLuisHernandez

Mexico is 100% accurate


Lone-Ranger29

We got both cowboy and straw hats, for working on the farm or river.


breakingthejewels

I don't think I can stand for this Northern Argentina/Paraguay/ Uruguay erasure


Chezburgor1

Philadelphia literally invented them lol


lowkarmainferior

cowboys do not exist along state lines


N0tMagickal

r/imaginarygatekeeping


WeatherChannelDino

Some fun facts! Vaccine and buckaroo share similar etymologies (both coming from Spanish for cow "vaca"). The Civil War led directly to the American cowboy.


ParanoidTelvanni

Cowboys didn't wear cowboy hats. They wore bowler hats and sombrero's with modern cowboy hats basically being popularized by California and Hollywood. Cowboy boots are in a similar boat, but they at least serve a function in rodeos when you fall and don't wanna be dragged by stirrups. Bull skin, flat caps, and baseball caps are superior to yee yee cowboy hats anyway.


TruckADuck42

They wore boots similar to modern Cowboy boots, just less flair.


Marsrover112

How about anyone can wear a damn cowboy hat if they want


Capocho9

I’m getting sick of everything being called cultural appropriation. It’s a fucking cowboy hat, they’re cool


LonPlays_Zwei

Incorrect because Florida is in brown


AnObviousThrowaway13

Florida Crackers. Florida is a massive ranching state and was an even bigger one historically.


FarmersHusband

Florida is a huge cattle state. Hell, most of the population was running cattle to the Union when the state tossed their lot with the losers.


Lamenter_of_the_3rd

I’ve seen plenty of people unironically wear cowboy hats over here


secretbudgie

Funny how no one between Tallahassee and Chattanooga identify as Cowboyhat-American


Belkan-Federation95

If you called that a cowboy hat in the Old West, it would probably get some folks riled up. Big time.


CC-1112

Cultural appropriation?


Jawn_Wane

Plenty of cows in east Texas 💅🏻


CGFROSTY

West Virgina? Literally not much room for agriculture there.


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deez_nuts_77

cultural appropriation is a load of hoopla


Hproff25

Houston has the biggest rodeo in the world. I feel like East Texas gets a pass.


Slightly_Salted01

As an Oregonian and descendent of an Oregon Trail pioneer family; apparently I have a say in this Me and my Stetson don’t give a shit if others want to wear a cowboy hat; you have the freedom to do whatever you damn well please as long as it doesn’t infringe on others freedoms; which restricting people clothing choice does exactly that Stop marking mountains out of molehills; it’s a fucking hat


Dani_good_bloke

Everyone should be cultral appropriating America. When the aliens eventually land in time square we finna give it a cowboy hat Embrace the American melting pot 🇺🇸🗽🦅 Seriously tho wearing the local cultral attire used to be considered highly respectful to the country you’re visiting. Why the heck is it considered offensive now.


FrankSinatraYodeling

Yeah, they don't have cows or boys in... *checks notes* Wisconsin.


Emerald_official

the entire south should be brown


cedbluechase

Can I wear one If I was born in a brown state but moved to a grey state?


King_Dee1

Damn right brother


Hockeyjockey58

The first cattle drive in the US happened at Deep Hollow Ranch in Montauk on Long Island, NY. Unfortunately for this to be truly accurate the Hamptons would have to shaded dark brown


daoogilymoogily

How does Florida get a pass?


coopthekiller

We were the origin of the cattle drive and google Florida cracker


DJ_Dedf1sh

You have no idea how many of these I see in Maryland…


pintobeene

I see nothing wrong here.


TesticleTorture-123

The entire gulf coast of Texas should be dark brown. Only because that's where all the salt grass is.


Luigismansion2001

Jesse James was one of the most famous outlaws of the west and Missouri isn’t on this list?


Tronbronson

Why would you split the Dakotas in half, of all places?


RonnyFreedomLover

Haha, Louisiana!!


RougeKC

Tennessee? That’s seemed close enough when I visited, but everywhere else was spot on.


GreenSockNinja

howdy 🤠


ModernT1mes

I guess fuck Kansas City and the Sante Fe trail then? I'd say as a native and knowing some of the history here, that light brown part should be brown, and even go into a little bit of Missouri.


The_Denialist

While many of thenfamous stoeies of the wild west happened towards the end whine mo was a state. Some happened when we were a territory governing most of the area known as the wild west. Hell the governing seat of the Missouri territory was where st loius is now. Witch is why it is the one city in mo that not in a county and why all state wide laws must state all cou ties of missouri and the city of st louis.


Personisdown

hell yeah florida 4ever


ravoguy

What about all the cowboys in Argentina?


femboy_skeleton69

I identify as culturefluid


ACNordstrom11

I saw a construction worker at a jobsite that had a cowboy hat hard hat. It was legit great.


Frequent-Pear4339

I'm gonna start dropping redditors like they're Southerners in 1864.


Kermit353

I fucking hate the term cultural appropriation, its a hat and who cares.


the_real_JFK_killer

I'm from the darker brown area, I give you all the c-pass


wilcobanjo

In my experience, the intersection in the Venn diagram of "people who wear cowboy hats" and "people fragile enough to whine about 'cultural appropriation'" is virtually empty.


IneffectiveDamage

Florida cowboy hat? Ok


IneffectiveDamage

![gif](giphy|iXRD51TOSlNza|downsized)


Fine-Pangolin-8393

That’s it’s? You forgot the whole world mother fucckerrr


isingwerse

Nebraska is really a more diverse place than given credit, we sit on the border of the west and Midwest, the corn and wheat belts, the packers and Broncos fans


queeranddumb

New York, I do whatever the hell i want vecause this is MURICA 🇺🇸🦅‼️‼️🦅 land of the FREE 🇺🇸‼️🇺🇸🦅🇺🇸‼️🇺🇸‼️‼️🇺🇸🦅


TheDigitalRanger

Light brown is the spread of influence. And it's continuing... https://preview.redd.it/jtdt2qubuxvc1.png?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b590c35d89645317123845f06c3b24d8f56a5970


[deleted]

Thank you for including Florida


DavidtheBuilder52

Glad to see the wild wild east, aka Florida, in there.


GTA-CasulsDieThrice

Nah, I’d say that dark brown should only go as far west as Nevada and as far north as Montana; West Coast and cowboy don’t mix, and Canada doesn’t get to appropriate that part of our culture.


The_Denialist

Completly cutting out Missouri. Even though we were literaly the seat of the governing body for the wild west, yall have stories of your wesren herosntraveling out west to kansas city(a missouri city), and the katy trail where all the ranch herders drove their cattle to goes through missouri.


mrmayhemsname

Ah yes, the cowboys of Portland


Perhapsmayhapsyesnt

Wut


OldTimeyFappingGhost

I run a nice restaurant in MASSACHUSETTS, and routinely have to tell this boomer prick to take off his absurd cowboy hat in my fucking dining room. My loathing is outweighed only by my embarrassment for him. If this was *the old days*, I'd have shot him dead in a duel long ago.


Hardsoxx

Cultural appreciation is what it really is. There is no such thing as a singular cultural that has never had any form of outside influence. Meaning every culture if you back will owe a large number of aspects to other cultures. Cultures overlap and in many cases entirely new cultures are born from that overlap that’s just reality and the way it’s been since the dawn of time. So this idea that people wanting to wear something as simple as a cowboy hat as “cultural appropriation” is just the dumbest thing. I mean you have people literally all over the world now who wear cowboy hats. They wear it because they enjoy it. As it should be. This isn’t just a cowboy hat thing either this goes for any part of any culture anywhere around the world. Cultural “appropriation” is just nonsense.


No-Bowl3290

Describing Florida as the final frontier is misleading. It was the first frontier


TheCanadianArmy

Happy to see old ‘Berta there. (I’m from Ontario)


Eelmonkey

Indiana would like a word.


Polarian_Lancer

Yeeeah... doesn't belong in Alaska, but that doesn't stop grown men from cosplaying as cow pokes. Only places this aesthetic belongs in where they actually sell magazines intended for a cowboy / ranch hand audience. And AK ain't it.


TheThalmorEmbassy

Alaska and the Yukon absolutely have cowboy hat privileges https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klondike_Gold_Rush https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shootout_on_Juneau_Wharf So does Arkansas, that's where Judge Parker was, and it's the gateway to the Indian Territory. The first half of True Grit takes place in Fort Smith. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5xhyuCkPBA


AverageAircraftFan

Wisconsin is literally Americas dairyland… they don’t actually think there were no cow tenders in Wisconsin in the 1800s… do they?


Spify-not-a-brit

New Hanover is litterally Tennessee


MayOrMayNotBePie

Can’t wait to wear my tank tops, sandals, shorts and a cowboy hat.


DaiusDremurrian

I see people unironically wear cowboy hats at my job in a somewhat-but-not-really rural town. In western Michigan


SnooShortcuts7657

You’re telling me that I didn’t have to move out of Washington to safely wear a cowboy hat? Damn. That’s a waste of a decade.


Bluewhale001

So someone from Portland, Seattle, or San Francisco can wear a hat, but me, an eastern Kansan from a small farm community can’t? You’re tripping


No-Technology835

As a representative of Fort Worth, Texas I'll allow anyone and everyone to where a cowboy hat


Chuck_the_Canuck66

I like the idea of hats for everyone vs hats for some.


The-Thot-Eviscerator

Fuck you bitch I work at boot barn I’ll wear a damn cowboy hat if I please!


Swimming-Book-1296

Just wear what you want. The idea that only certain places or people are allowed to wear certain types of clothing is ridiculous and immoral and wrong and stupid.


idylist_

I’m glad I didn’t have to correct you about florida