why so many California hats??

[MacGumerait]

Hah! Not even close! At least the sort of hat I'm talking about and linked to above, with the state flag on them. (My OP mentions "state pride" and all of the hats on the Ebay search I linked to show the California state flag, and are not hats of sports teams or universities.)

There are what, over 800 hats on Ebay with permutations of the California Republic "bear flag" on them (using the search "California Republic hat") but Texas only a tiny handful. Check out this search, with various Texas colleges, universities, and sports teams taken out... see that very few show the Texas state flag

http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_odkw...-tech&_sacat=0

You need to remove that stuff because the quite specific search "California Republic hat" has over 800 hats. (Searching "Texas Republic hat" gives only 3 items; "Texas flag hat" only 65 items. The vast majority of the items which come up with a "Texas hat" search are cowboy hats and hats of various universities and sports teams.)

Well , that's because Texans don't need to be out there in droves trying to sell their hats on Ebay , they want to keep them !! And rightly so !