# Any other place as proud as Texas?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [July 8, 2019, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-other-place-as-proud-as-texas/836721 "2019-07-08T17:04:30Z")\
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I’ve known a few displaced Texans. I can’t say whether they’re prouder than everyone else, but I can say they’re sillier about how they express their pride than anybody else.

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I lived in Laredo for several years in the late 80s and early 90s. There, the more cowpersoned up an individual dressed, the less likely it was that s/he was a cowperson. The actual ranch hands I knew wore boots like [this](https://www.northerntool.com/shop/tools/product_200673978_200673978?cm_mmc=Bing-pla&utm_source=Bing_PLA&utm_medium=Clothing%20%2B%20Footwear%20%3E%20Footwear&utm_campaign=Gravel%20Gear&utm_content=139451&msclkid=b46adab601611c0a3837878d663f0193), gimme caps, and tee-shirts. If they wore a western-style hat, it was invariably an inexpensive straw one.

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**Post date:** [July 26, 2019, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-other-place-as-proud-as-texas/836721/63 "2019-07-26T21:37:14Z")

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> [@Maserschmidt](#):
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> Go to Uncle Julio‘s during the Stock Show and I guarantee you’ll see spurs at some point. Though you’ll also have to wait 90 minutes for a table.

Well, yeah. But that’s when the rodeo is going on, and Uncle Julio’s is only a couple of miles away. I’ll bet you see them in Ol’ South and the Railhead Smokehouse too.

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