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empedocles

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28. Remember in the '50's, there was 'country-western' music.

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Sun Nov 10, 2019, 07:17 AM

Nov 2019

Cowboy gear was common, Hank Williams, even Winchester Patsy Cline, et al. 'cons often like the '50's.

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Why are conservatives so obsessed with cowboys? [View all] Initech Nov 2019 OP

petty little men need their guns and cowboys to make themselves feel macho Skittles Nov 2019 #1

They live for horseshit, cowshit and bullshit, but it's mostly chickenshit. TheBlackAdder Nov 2019 #29

Because the cowboy life was when men were men TexasBushwhacker Nov 2019 #2

Geez, nearly spit out my coffee after reading that last part. alwaysinasnit Nov 2019 #10

I think it's just nostalgia for our lost yodeling lifestyle from bygone romantic days of yore! struggle4progress Nov 2019 #3

Also mahina Nov 2019 #18

When he was a kid, my dad met Jimmie Rodgers. LuvNewcastle Nov 2019 #34

People my age grew up on Westerns. I love them. But as a kid, it was never political. rusty quoin Nov 2019 #4

In their adolescent minds, they're still playing "Cowboys and Indians." Garrett78 Nov 2019 #5

The Rugged Individualist image TDale313 Nov 2019 #6

Precisely Sherman A1 Nov 2019 #19

Because the FOX News prime demographic grew up in the heyday of TV/Movie westerns JHB Nov 2019 #7

They want to be the Marlboro Man RainCaster Nov 2019 #8

. dalton99a Nov 2019 #9

Barf mahina Nov 2019 #16

Heh, heh! smirkymonkey Nov 2019 #22

He looks so ridiculous. LuvNewcastle Nov 2019 #35

Cowboys of classic western genre were rugged individualists, and... Beartracks Nov 2019 #11

A good movie would explain such. It's Eastwood's Unforgiven where the bad guy, Richard Harris, rusty quoin Nov 2019 #12

I met a real cowboy in Colorado Dirty Socialist Nov 2019 #13

+1 Beartracks Nov 2019 #14

My wife has honest-to-God working Texas cowboys in her family. Dave Starsky Nov 2019 #38

Oh come on now. Who doesn't love cowboys. mahina Nov 2019 #15

He's a drug store truck driving man, he's the head of the Ku Klux Klan.... safeinOhio Nov 2019 #17

Movie cowboys are seen by some guys as macho men, manly men. nt tblue37 Nov 2019 #20

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence unc70 Nov 2019 #21

They believe in the media-created image of the cowboy, they are committed to that image ck4829 Nov 2019 #23

Assless chaps jberryhill Nov 2019 #24

manly KG Nov 2019 #25

I think of Brokeback Mountain when I think of cowboys. LuvNewcastle Nov 2019 #37

What gets me is that a cowboy was a coward if he shot an unarmed man. Solomon Nov 2019 #26

the "code of the west" rampartc Nov 2019 #27

Remember in the '50's, there was 'country-western' music. empedocles Nov 2019 #28

They are hoodwinked by the false myth created by Hollywood. TexasProgresive Nov 2019 #30

it's a frustration thing. onethatcares Nov 2019 #31

Thinking about Westerns and Cowboys... Mike Nelson Nov 2019 #32

Crotchless leather chaps?? maxrandb Nov 2019 #33

I think their movie association with slaughtering indigenous people malaise Nov 2019 #36