Whats the difference between southerners and cowboys?

Question

Are Texans considered southerners like people from Georgia and Alabama? Do cowboys consider people who dress like cowboys in Pac Northwest (Idaho, Oregon, Washington) as sort of fake? How come a lot of people in Montana speak with a twang when it is way up North?

Answer 1

Why do people in S FL not speak with a twang, when that's as far south as you can get? I'm not talking about the folks who moved here from NY, but the people who grew up here.

Answer 2

Being a southern girl like myself I'd say that your southern by birthright. Texans are southerners. Cowboys are range folk. People who work with animals on the land. You can be both a southerner and a cowboy if you were born in TX and work on a ranch. Montana is range land so you can have cowboys there. Don't know about OR or WA or ID. I suppose they just like the wear because of the fashion statement or they're farmers and its their Sunday go to meeting clothes. We have a high influx of immigrants in NC and they love to wear westernwear. Never thought of them as cowboys but it's what they are comfortable wearing.No different than goth when you get right down to it.

Answer 3

Us Texans are as Southern as you can get, geographically and fantastically. I don't know much about real cowboys. so, i have no clue what they consider fake. People in Montana speak with a twang because they are basically set in the west (kinda sorta). This, of course is all my opinion, and I have no idea the encyclopedia answer. I do come from Texas, so the first answer is from experience.

Answer 4

A cowboy is a person who has or does work with cattle (a ranch hand for instance) a southerner is someone who lives 9in the south, they are not necessarily the same thing.

Answer 5

Hmmm this is an interesting question... I'm from Tennessee and don't think of Texas as southern myself... my idea of a southerner is someone from the southeast. Although I don't consider Florida southern hehe