Cecil sez they were hats.
While we’re at it, why don’t we see if we can find three news stories about jewish muggings, beatings or slayings from the last month? perhaps stereotypes exist for a reason.
Meyer Wolfshein from “The Great Gatsby” comes to mind.
There is quite a large Jewish population in Houston, Texas.
So does New Orleans (or at least it did before “white flight”, I have no idea if it’s that way now), and, for that matter, most of the large cities in the South (Atlanta, Birmingham, etc.).