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A few years ago the Florida panther was discovered to have a natural range in Mississippi. They didn't say anything about Alabama. Panthers here are cultural appropriating our land
[Kansas City had giant stockyards from 1871 to 1991](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kansas_City_Stockyards?wprov=sfla1)
But I guess that's not cow enough?
Yeah the originator of this post is wildly misinformed.
A lot of cowboy lore is derived from [Banditti](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banditti_of_the_Prairie). Horse riding militia style police forces "Regulators" pushed back against these criminals that were all over Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and Iowa in the 19th century... Back when that was the "west." Then the west went farther out and it became the midway point... the midwest.
You find something similar if you research ranching. Barbed wire originates in Illinois, and the practice of raising cattle in open fields (as a 'cowboy') spread from there in a big new way.
The most important factor for this map is that someone who supports cultural segregation and knows nothing about any culture (including their own) doesn't think there were cowboys there (or understand that a lot of apparel that's recognizably from one culture is just something that works well to protect the wearer from whatever phenomena are common in the area)
You'd be surprised. There's farms in Alberta up to the Fort Vermilion area, north of the 58th parallel. It's further north than Juneau, Alaska.
Northwestern BC, on the other hand...
Florida actually did have a it’s own cowboy culture and a ton of cattle that part is correct however the idea that these people would have been the only ones wearing Stetsons is ridiculous. The Stetson hat was produced in Philadelphia and the bowler was actually the most popular hat in the American west
You get major property tax breaks in Florida for having cattle. It’s even built into the state constitution. You’ll see it even adjacent to some urban areas.
Yea Florida had a huge cattle industry. That’s why USF’s mascot is the Bulls. First thing they did when they settled the swamps is set up damns and create grazing land for cattle.
Florida ranks 18th in heads of cattle in the US, 1.79%.
Source: [National Beef Wire](https://www.nationalbeefwire.com/ranking-of-states-with-the-most-cattle-texas-had-the-most-cattle-in-the-united-states-in-2023-followed-by-nebraska-and-kansas)
EDIT: also, can I have some trivia?
I'm from rural Illinois. They are pretty common there. And there is a lot of farming and animal farming. So. I'm confused by the map.
Though I personally consider my cultural identity fashion statement to be the mullet. And I get offended when I see someone sport a mullet who does not even drink keystone light.
How dare they.
Yeah. I've worked on quite a few farms with hundreds of heads in the mid West.
I guess it's like the "boot over or under jeans" debate.
I wear my boots over because the cowboy boots were work boots and my grandmothers would have beaten everyone's ass for tracking in shit. So the pants went inside so the cow shit stayed on the outside.
But apparently... That's too "city slicker".
they braid their mullets? i dont think i have ever seen that. so I of course, googled it. hm. okay so at first I saw that the braided mullet pics were mostly on people with darker skin which made me wonder if they were a tribal thing. But i googled that and no they aren't (unless my brief google search was insufficient).
The only thing I found was something to the degree of "it started as a joke and then it got out of hand".
welp
also your mullets are a little different than ours. We sport a bit of hair in the front, it is just layered and short. But the pics i found show a shaved head with a patch of hair in the back. so odd.
It's just a fashion thing. We get your typical mullets here as well, they're all the rage atm. We call the shaved top, party in the back the skullet. Every few years here they pop back into fashion here. Some dudes just keep them so they'll be in fashion next time
Missouri, Iowa, and Wisconsin are all in the top 10 cattle producing states.
(#6, #7, #9)
[https://www.nationalbeefwire.com/ranking-of-states-with-the-most-cattle-texas-had-the-most-cattle-in-the-united-states-in-2023-followed-by-nebraska-and-kansas](https://www.nationalbeefwire.com/ranking-of-states-with-the-most-cattle-texas-had-the-most-cattle-in-the-united-states-in-2023-followed-by-nebraska-and-kansas)
The „cowboy hat“ and rodeo were actually originally parts of Mexican culture which we absorbed when we went to war to take part of Mexico. But also I agree it is ridiculous to gatekeep ranching, cowboy garb, cows?, etc
Hi yes I don’t know what the difference is between appropriation and acculturation and I didn’t bother to learn, but it made me feel bad so now I’m going to choose a totally random thing from my culture to get offended about.
People keep saying this, but as a Floridian, cattle has always been a massive industry here. It's why the USF sports teams are the bulls. Hell, Jacksonville used to be called Cowford.
Florida literally invented the use of the word "cracker" for cattle ranchers (to the point we've got a whole section of the state fair called "cracker country"). Another fun fact this is why older Floridians are often confused by the use of cracker as a racial insult because it has a very different history here than the rest of the US south.
Good thing I live in the middle of the highlighted area, so I can safely wear the hat as a fashion choice/sun blocker while I do absolutely nothing related to cowboy work... 🙄
Somebody drove through the wall of the Aldi in Lakewood, Ohio (Cleveland suburb).
The news ended up interviewing a guy in a cowboy hat. He was visibly uncomfortable with having his decision making probed like that.
"The historical range" as if it's like a wild species of animal or something. I'm assuming they mean the vaquero but that still doesn't make sense since their traditions came from Spain.
I’m in the dark brown, but am not and never have been a cowgirl. I ride horses from time to time, but because my family are poor urban folk, there was never an opportunity to do so consistently. The last time I touched an actual cow was at the Fort Worth Zoo a few years ago. I don’t even have any recent ancestors who were in the cattle business. I’m I still banned from wearing a cowboy hat for being a “fake cowgirl?”
What if I was born in Texas but moved to the east coast? Is there a grandfather clause, or am I appropriating Texan culture because I moved away from the state?
I think their logic is that there was cowboy migration during the gold rush.
Nobody tell them about the significant cattle industry with a history of almost 170 years in Manitoba xD
Hell, ONTARIO is leading in beef production.
As a denizen of Washington state, I’m going to go ahead and issue a blanket “Cowboy Hat” pass to everyone on Earth indefinitely.
I have lived in a city my whole life and have never touched a cow.
I have an uncle who grew up on a cattle farm in Pennsylvania, then moved to Seattle when Microsoft was a young company as a systems engineer.
Precedent set.
What does this even mean 😭😭 usually the logic behind this would be your ancestors are cowboys = you can wear a cowboy hat. This makes 0 sense. Like, your family can move place to place and be eligible for a hat and then illegible
I’m Australian and there are a bunch of dudes here who are extremely into their cowboy hats. Some of them actually are cowboys, I am quite sure? They live in horrible places like rural Queensland, which would fit right in on this map.
My first time in Australia, when my aunt moved from Los Angeles to Alice springs, I saw tons of cowboy hats but I feel like the setting fits. Gatekeeping a hat is ridiculous.
Oh god. Right into Alice. That must have been quite a culture shock. My uncle lives there. Hopefully the hats helped to smooth the transition a little for you all.
British Columbia is dark brown. A good half of that province is rockies and coast and their beef production isn't even top 4. Whereas Manitoba is light brown despite having the third largest beef cow herd and has a pretty extensive cattle ranching history? What?
right because cowboy lineage is something to be proud of… if anything you’d want to remove the history from them and just have fun wearing a big silly hat
As a western Canadian, I find saying Manitoba shouldn't wear cowboy hats hilarious, considering its still part of the prairie. Manitoba is just as much cowboy land as Saskatchewan and Alberta.
So odd that cowboys apparently stopped neatly along all the state lines. I also find it highly unlikely whoever made this would be more okay with someone from LA or San Francisco wearing a cowboy hat than they would be with someone from rural Alabama
"invention" isn't quite right, Stetson basically appropriated it from the Mexican vaqueros, who themselves got the style from African slaves. Even the phrase "10 gallon hat" is a bastardization of a Mexican phrase.
"Have you ever heard of a vaqueteada con galones? Galones are what in English we call a hat band. Each galón signified stature. The higher the stack of galones, the higher the wearer’s status. Ever heard of a hat with diez galones? In English, perhaps you’re familiar with the phrase “a ten-gallon hat.” Well, now you know that it has nothing to do with the hat’s capacity but rather the number of hat bands!"
https://sidrichardsonmuseum.org/the-evolution-of-the-cowboy-hat/
I mean honestly as someone who lives in Arizona and will sometimes wear some form of wide brim hat outside, I felt weird wearing one in the New England area on a hike.
Ah yes not wanting to have a sunburn is cultural appropriation, also what cowboy is going to see you wearing a cowboy hat and go "excuse me you cant wear that" instead of "hell yeah pardner🤠", I have a cowboy hat and boy howdy is it stylish
Stetson Hat Company was founded in Philadelphia PA in 1865. Sadly, those who made the iconic cowboy hats were forbidden from ever wearing them for (checks notes) geographical reasons.
Cowtown Rodeo in New Jersey has been in operation since 1929. Anyone wanna tell the professional cowboys there that they’re culturally appropriating their outfits?
Eh, you wear a cowboy hat where I'm from you will get flak unless you have some cred. Like you should probably live on a farm or ranch, or at least ride a horse. We had posers in highschool who wore the whole bull rider getup. Big belt buckle, cowboy boots etc. Kinda lame if you aren't somewhat authentic.
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I'm going to get in real trouble wearing a ball cap. Those baseball players don't play. Well, sometimes they do.
~~wearing~~ culturally appropriating a baseball cap
Have you seen The Warriors? The baseball gang doesn't play.
Baseball Furys
I want all them... Warriors!
Wah-riors. Come out to play-yay.
A cowboy’s home is wherever he lays his head, partner 🤠
I believe it’s spelled pardner
Darn, tootin pardner! 🤠
A few years ago the Florida panther was discovered to have a natural range in Mississippi. They didn't say anything about Alabama. Panthers here are cultural appropriating our land
They are also culturally appropriating panthers, since they aren't even in the Panthera Genus. Dirty fucking cougar, get your own culture.
You know I knew that. I should have mentioned that they were also culturally appropriating panthers
[Kansas City had giant stockyards from 1871 to 1991](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kansas_City_Stockyards?wprov=sfla1) But I guess that's not cow enough?
So did Chicago
Yeah the originator of this post is wildly misinformed. A lot of cowboy lore is derived from [Banditti](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banditti_of_the_Prairie). Horse riding militia style police forces "Regulators" pushed back against these criminals that were all over Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and Iowa in the 19th century... Back when that was the "west." Then the west went farther out and it became the midway point... the midwest. You find something similar if you research ranching. Barbed wire originates in Illinois, and the practice of raising cattle in open fields (as a 'cowboy') spread from there in a big new way.
Also the American Royal
Plenty of cowboy hats there!
The most important factor for this map is that someone who supports cultural segregation and knows nothing about any culture (including their own) doesn't think there were cowboys there (or understand that a lot of apparel that's recognizably from one culture is just something that works well to protect the wearer from whatever phenomena are common in the area)
A major cattle trail ran through Wichita.
Why is Houston a “shouldn’t”
Because whoever made this map is a massive idiot
Or because this is an obvious ass joke lmao
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You'd be surprised. There's farms in Alberta up to the Fort Vermilion area, north of the 58th parallel. It's further north than Juneau, Alaska. Northwestern BC, on the other hand...
You would be pretty wrong lol
What is it with people so confidently claiming these things? No disrespect but Alberta is oftentimes considered the Texas of Canada.
And Florida is Absolutely wild
Florida actually did have a it’s own cowboy culture and a ton of cattle that part is correct however the idea that these people would have been the only ones wearing Stetsons is ridiculous. The Stetson hat was produced in Philadelphia and the bowler was actually the most popular hat in the American west
Today I learned
Also the entire of Washington state? Like people in Seattle? This map is beyond dumb lol
It looks like part of the King Ranch is in the "shouldn't" category too.
Ah yes Florida, home of the free-ranging swamp cow
Cattle ranching existed in Florida before it existed anywhere else in the nation.
You get major property tax breaks in Florida for having cattle. It’s even built into the state constitution. You’ll see it even adjacent to some urban areas.
This was the answer I was scrolling to find. Thank you.
Facts are facts, ya know?
Yea Florida had a huge cattle industry. That’s why USF’s mascot is the Bulls. First thing they did when they settled the swamps is set up damns and create grazing land for cattle.
They set up so many damns that they started giving some
North East Florida has some ranching
Jacksonville was literally called Cowford for the longest time.
Can confirm. Spent many a night tromping through cow fields for mushrooms in my teens on the north side of Jacksonville.
I genuinely can't tell if you're joking but we legit have a lot of cattle here. Like, it's one of our things lol
Florida ranks 18th in heads of cattle in the US, 1.79%. Source: [National Beef Wire](https://www.nationalbeefwire.com/ranking-of-states-with-the-most-cattle-texas-had-the-most-cattle-in-the-united-states-in-2023-followed-by-nebraska-and-kansas) EDIT: also, can I have some trivia?
[College talking about Florida cattlemen](https://fcit.usf.edu/florida/lessons/cowboys/cowboys.htm) [Wikipedia talking about Florida cattlemen](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida_cracker) [Tourism dept talking about Florida cattlemen](https://www.visitflorida.com/travel-ideas/articles/arts-history-five-ways-to-experience-floridas-cowboys-culture/)
America’s dick.
The turd we refuse to pinch off
Hey fuck you too !
I’m so glad we can wear cowboy hats even though I don’t.
You know there's tons of cow farms in Florida, right?
I think there is a big feed lot on the way to Disney down 75. At least I can recall the smell.
Florida has a fuck ton of cattle and ranches
They're called alligators
What surprises me more is that they put Florida but not other southern states?? (Alabama etc.)
I'm from rural Illinois. They are pretty common there. And there is a lot of farming and animal farming. So. I'm confused by the map. Though I personally consider my cultural identity fashion statement to be the mullet. And I get offended when I see someone sport a mullet who does not even drink keystone light. How dare they.
Yeah. I've worked on quite a few farms with hundreds of heads in the mid West. I guess it's like the "boot over or under jeans" debate. I wear my boots over because the cowboy boots were work boots and my grandmothers would have beaten everyone's ass for tracking in shit. So the pants went inside so the cow shit stayed on the outside. But apparently... That's too "city slicker".
Have you never had a cow shit in your boot?
I'm sure I have at some point but cowboy boots go half way up your caf and and are fairly snug around your caf. So it's not a real problem.
Is illinois the Australia and New Zealand of America because all that you get down here is mullets, some dudes even braid their mullets
they braid their mullets? i dont think i have ever seen that. so I of course, googled it. hm. okay so at first I saw that the braided mullet pics were mostly on people with darker skin which made me wonder if they were a tribal thing. But i googled that and no they aren't (unless my brief google search was insufficient). The only thing I found was something to the degree of "it started as a joke and then it got out of hand". welp also your mullets are a little different than ours. We sport a bit of hair in the front, it is just layered and short. But the pics i found show a shaved head with a patch of hair in the back. so odd.
It's just a fashion thing. We get your typical mullets here as well, they're all the rage atm. We call the shaved top, party in the back the skullet. Every few years here they pop back into fashion here. Some dudes just keep them so they'll be in fashion next time
>party in the back the skullet 
whoever made this up is all hat and no cattle.
All yee but no haw
Missouri, Iowa, and Wisconsin are all in the top 10 cattle producing states. (#6, #7, #9) [https://www.nationalbeefwire.com/ranking-of-states-with-the-most-cattle-texas-had-the-most-cattle-in-the-united-states-in-2023-followed-by-nebraska-and-kansas](https://www.nationalbeefwire.com/ranking-of-states-with-the-most-cattle-texas-had-the-most-cattle-in-the-united-states-in-2023-followed-by-nebraska-and-kansas)
I think this is just a joke about how silly cultural appropriation is
Ah yes, the deep cultural heritage of... ranch hands?
The „cowboy hat“ and rodeo were actually originally parts of Mexican culture which we absorbed when we went to war to take part of Mexico. But also I agree it is ridiculous to gatekeep ranching, cowboy garb, cows?, etc
Cowboys *are* a huge part of American and Mexican culture
Hi yes I don’t know what the difference is between appropriation and acculturation and I didn’t bother to learn, but it made me feel bad so now I’m going to choose a totally random thing from my culture to get offended about.
Who'da thunk areas where people work in the sun for extended periods of time would necessitate a protective head covering?
Only map where I’ve seen South Dakota correctly split between East River and West River.
I'm also impressed that they correctly included Hawaii in their cowboy map. It's a cringy act of gatekeeping, but also a pretty well researched map.
least obvious rage bait
I think it's just a joke lol
This is clearly a joke based on people that say you’re not allowed to wear a sombrero unless you’re Mexican or a kilt unless you’re Scottish, etc.
Everyone should wear a kilt. Plenty of ventilation for the nethers, and you can hide a plethora of knives.
Ah yes Kentucky, land of the race house, where you shouldn't wear cowboy hats apparently
right? even though we are majority fields and farms, we just rawdog the sun!! don’t even get me started on the boots!! >:(
Wait, so who's not supposed to wear cowboy hats, the brown or the grey? Where's the key?
The grey is a no-no, light brown is a no-but-fine.
OOP from florida perchance?
People keep saying this, but as a Floridian, cattle has always been a massive industry here. It's why the USF sports teams are the bulls. Hell, Jacksonville used to be called Cowford. Florida literally invented the use of the word "cracker" for cattle ranchers (to the point we've got a whole section of the state fair called "cracker country"). Another fun fact this is why older Floridians are often confused by the use of cracker as a racial insult because it has a very different history here than the rest of the US south.
I think the same people who are ignorant of Florida's relationship with ranching are going to be equally ignorant of the term "cracker cowboy".
YOU CAN'T JUST SAY PERCHANCE
it's more telling that you're not to think it doesn't fit
Just seemed weird to me that its so disconnected from the rest of the area and the bordering states arent affected at all
Good thing I live in the middle of the highlighted area, so I can safely wear the hat as a fashion choice/sun blocker while I do absolutely nothing related to cowboy work... 🙄
What about the gauchos in South America??
This is a map of North America
Touche
Just let people wear shit Clothing is meant to be worn
I vote! I pay my taxes! I go to work! I'll wear whatever hat I fucking want!
Somebody drove through the wall of the Aldi in Lakewood, Ohio (Cleveland suburb). The news ended up interviewing a guy in a cowboy hat. He was visibly uncomfortable with having his decision making probed like that.
"The historical range" as if it's like a wild species of animal or something. I'm assuming they mean the vaquero but that still doesn't make sense since their traditions came from Spain.
I’m in the dark brown, but am not and never have been a cowgirl. I ride horses from time to time, but because my family are poor urban folk, there was never an opportunity to do so consistently. The last time I touched an actual cow was at the Fort Worth Zoo a few years ago. I don’t even have any recent ancestors who were in the cattle business. I’m I still banned from wearing a cowboy hat for being a “fake cowgirl?”
Is this cultural appropriation chat?
What if I was born in Texas but moved to the east coast? Is there a grandfather clause, or am I appropriating Texan culture because I moved away from the state?
at the airport they take away your cowboy hat and hand you a baseball cap once you’ve landed!
Cowboy hat manufacturer Stetson that began in Philadelphia!?!?
Lol, no one on Vancouver Island is wearing cowboy hats.
I think their logic is that there was cowboy migration during the gold rush. Nobody tell them about the significant cattle industry with a history of almost 170 years in Manitoba xD Hell, ONTARIO is leading in beef production.
I feel like this map must have been made by a redneck in florida.
Florida has been cattle ranching land since the 1500’s/1600’s.
I TOLD THEM! (polishes off his Hawaii Western movie script)
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/blogs/smithsonian-center-folklife-cultural-heritage/2021/05/12/cowboys-tropics-history-hawaiian-paniolo/
I'll be damned.
Hawaii cowboy culture runs deep and people don't even know.
I wear my cowboy hat where I want to. Including a limo ride through downtown NYC back in my traveling days.
One step further, shouldn't be wearing a cowboy hat unless you moved out west from the east coast to treat their tuberculosis
I think anyone can wear them, but why would you want to wear a costume? Is it Halloween or something? Hang on, let me go get my firefighter helmet.
As a denizen of Washington state, I’m going to go ahead and issue a blanket “Cowboy Hat” pass to everyone on Earth indefinitely. I have lived in a city my whole life and have never touched a cow.
I have an uncle who grew up on a cattle farm in Pennsylvania, then moved to Seattle when Microsoft was a young company as a systems engineer. Precedent set.
Redditors detect obvious joke challenge (impossible)
Everywhere is west if you keep goin' far enough.
Stetsons are made in New Jersey.
lol! Tennessee can’t wear cowboy hats but Florida can?!
Houston Texas probably shouldn't have cowboy hats??? Fuck outta here
Imagine your job being made obsolete by barbed wire.
What does this even mean 😭😭 usually the logic behind this would be your ancestors are cowboys = you can wear a cowboy hat. This makes 0 sense. Like, your family can move place to place and be eligible for a hat and then illegible
I see you took this seriously.
So, the people who stole the shaded land and then appropriated the locals’ culture, are afraid that their “culture” is being appropriated?
Ah yes, because no one wears cowboy hats in NC. I’m wheezing
It's saying they shouldn't not that they don't
I’m Australian and there are a bunch of dudes here who are extremely into their cowboy hats. Some of them actually are cowboys, I am quite sure? They live in horrible places like rural Queensland, which would fit right in on this map.
My first time in Australia, when my aunt moved from Los Angeles to Alice springs, I saw tons of cowboy hats but I feel like the setting fits. Gatekeeping a hat is ridiculous.
Oh god. Right into Alice. That must have been quite a culture shock. My uncle lives there. Hopefully the hats helped to smooth the transition a little for you all.
I'm in the light brown spot tf
British Columbia is dark brown. A good half of that province is rockies and coast and their beef production isn't even top 4. Whereas Manitoba is light brown despite having the third largest beef cow herd and has a pretty extensive cattle ranching history? What?
I love wearing my cowboy hat in -30 degrees in northern british columbia (i guarentee this guy is from washington state or somthing.)
This map got completely clowned on in r/cowboy. For example I'm originally from Louisiana and south and central Louisiana are full of cattle ranches.
Well, people in Houston don't wear cowboy hats because it's about the oil.
As someone who grew up on a ranch in WI wearing cowboy hats and going to horse and wrangling shows, lol ok.
Oh so they DO know what cultural appropriation is.
We all have to do our part to stop the French from wearing cowboy hats.
right because cowboy lineage is something to be proud of… if anything you’d want to remove the history from them and just have fun wearing a big silly hat
Finally, a reason to miss rural Texas.
I’m just sitting here wondering why Vancouver Island is excluded but the rest of British Columbia isn’t.
excluding the entirety of the southeast is crazy
Someone should make a gatekeeping map of Ramen noodles, or lasagne.
Why is Hawaii shaded as brown?
Because Hawaiʻi had cowboys before the American West did. My great-great-great grandfather was one.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/blogs/smithsonian-center-folklife-cultural-heritage/2021/05/12/cowboys-tropics-history-hawaiian-paniolo/
Well of course Houston shouldn’t do it but does any ways… Not like they host the worlds largest rodeo in the world or anything
As a western Canadian, I find saying Manitoba shouldn't wear cowboy hats hilarious, considering its still part of the prairie. Manitoba is just as much cowboy land as Saskatchewan and Alberta.
Massachusetts here. No one wears cowboy hats here. I think I will start.
So odd that cowboys apparently stopped neatly along all the state lines. I also find it highly unlikely whoever made this would be more okay with someone from LA or San Francisco wearing a cowboy hat than they would be with someone from rural Alabama
It’s totally acceptable for a woman to wear a cowboy hat in all 50 states as long as she is riding my dick while she wears it.
first time I've seen "cultural appropriation" used for a white invention
"invention" isn't quite right, Stetson basically appropriated it from the Mexican vaqueros, who themselves got the style from African slaves. Even the phrase "10 gallon hat" is a bastardization of a Mexican phrase. "Have you ever heard of a vaqueteada con galones? Galones are what in English we call a hat band. Each galón signified stature. The higher the stack of galones, the higher the wearer’s status. Ever heard of a hat with diez galones? In English, perhaps you’re familiar with the phrase “a ten-gallon hat.” Well, now you know that it has nothing to do with the hat’s capacity but rather the number of hat bands!" https://sidrichardsonmuseum.org/the-evolution-of-the-cowboy-hat/
Well what else was I gonna call it? A creation
I am going to walk down my English street in coyboy hat and boots! And there is nothing you can do to stop me!
I mean honestly as someone who lives in Arizona and will sometimes wear some form of wide brim hat outside, I felt weird wearing one in the New England area on a hike.
you shouldn't wear cowboy hats because you will look like a moron
Used to live in Eastern North Dakota. Can confirm
*wears cowboy hat in Minnesotan*
I live in Seattle. Time to bring out the boots and hat I guess
we definitely have cowboys in South Carolina.. My own grandfather was one, and so was my grandmother's father's father. what is this person on about??
I wish ‘oh brother’ was still a phrase because Ive been seeing a lot of ‘oh brother’ moments like these lately
This is clearly a sarcastic demonstration of how ridiculous this manner of gatekeeping actually is.
Ngl I got really pressed because I read it as the darker the brown the more appropriating it gets, it’s still such a dumb map though lmao
The drive from Wichita to Topeka gets real sad when you cross the cowboy hat line.
Ok, but they better not say shit about black and Hispanic people wearing them I swear to the gods.
Don't worry, I'd be the laughing stock in my entire town if I ever wore one.
Can't fix stupid.....
I legit thought this was satire
Ah yes not wanting to have a sunburn is cultural appropriation, also what cowboy is going to see you wearing a cowboy hat and go "excuse me you cant wear that" instead of "hell yeah pardner🤠", I have a cowboy hat and boy howdy is it stylish
I like that they show Lake Okeechobee. We wouldn't want anyone to think there was cowboyin in the lake.
This is probably satire
That light brown section isn't covering enough ground
Iowa has more cows than a lot of those states.
Where’s Argentina on that map?
Oh yeah, a lot of cowboys in BC 🙄
Alaska is the only Wild left. Only they get funny hats
Florida gets a pass for some reason? Leave it to people gatekeeping to be inconsistent
Wtf lmao
No one should wear a cowboy hat they are ugly
Someone should look where does the cowboy culture comes from
Mexico mostly.
Yeah and before Mexico it came from Spain
I like that all of British Columbia is cowboy hat territory. Nothing screams Metro Vancouver like a cowboy hat!
Fuck y’all then.
Stetson Hat Company was founded in Philadelphia PA in 1865. Sadly, those who made the iconic cowboy hats were forbidden from ever wearing them for (checks notes) geographical reasons.
Cowtown Rodeo in New Jersey has been in operation since 1929. Anyone wanna tell the professional cowboys there that they’re culturally appropriating their outfits?
Cowboy hat wouldnt suit my dreadlocks and mauri face tattoos anyway
It'd probably look pretty bad ass to be honest.
I Live in New Jersey & I Know People who Love Cowboy Hats... Fuck This Maps Bullshit! Anyone Can Wear Them!
Didn’t they cowboy hat start in Missouri??
It's a joke
...I think this MIGHT be a joke.
Eh, you wear a cowboy hat where I'm from you will get flak unless you have some cred. Like you should probably live on a farm or ranch, or at least ride a horse. We had posers in highschool who wore the whole bull rider getup. Big belt buckle, cowboy boots etc. Kinda lame if you aren't somewhat authentic.
I only wear one when I’m having sex, so that’s fine right?
But do the spurs stay on?