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