why so many California hats??

[OC Richard]

I suppose state pride is cool and all that, but isn't this overkill?

I've seen loads of people around here recently wearing hats bearing the California state flag (or some permutation thereof).

Just now I did an Ebay search and wowza there are hundreds of these things in every colour scheme imaginable:

http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_odkw...c+hat&_sacat=0

Any other state, or country for that matter, have so many hats? Or is it just us crazy folks on the southwest coast?

If anybody is interested, the Bear Flag was the symbol of the 1846 Bear Flag Revolt... here's info and a photo of the original flag, at the lower right

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_California

[Skiballa]

I haven't seen the same here, but "The Commonwealth of Massachusetts" and the state seal are probably not going to get the same treatment. It just doesn't have the cool factor of the CA version.

Edited to add: I forgot about our "Masshole" hats, t-shirts, and bumper stickers, if that ain't state pride, I don't know what is.

[unixken]

Edited to add: I forgot about our "Masshole" hats, t-shirts, and bumper stickers, if that ain't state pride, I don't know what is.

From an ex-Masshole... That's wicked pissah.

[Skiballa]

From an ex-Masshole... That's wicked pissah.

True, though I don't sound like that, while I was in the Army, I always got "But you don't sound like you're from Massachusetts!", to which I reply, I'm not from that part of MA.

The official head wear of Massachusetts, btw, is a navy blue ball cap with a stylized "B" on it, just sayin'.

[piperdbh]

The main reason you see so many Californey hats is that we haven't sold enough of these:

[David Thorpe]

Any other state, or country for that matter, have so many hats?

Yes. Texas.

[LitTrog]

This is the state hat for Iowa (at least it was when I was a lad):

[McElmurry]

This is the state hat for Iowa (at least it was when I was a lad):

I use to drive one of these.






So I prefer to wear one of these.





I am not really seeing a lot of California hats up this way. Maybe it is more of a south of the Grapevine thing.

Giants hats seem to be selling like hotcakes.

[Panache]

Giants hats seem to be selling like hotcakes.

It does seem as of late our state colors are black and orange

Cheers

Jamie

[EagleJCS]

It does seem as of late our state colors are black and orange

Cheers

Jamie

I think that's just Halloween...