Which place has more cowboy type people? Mexico or Florida?

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Mark The Latin Travel Dude

Yep. It's Mexico by a LOOONGGG shot.

But though the term "caballeros" takes its heritage from the cowboys, the term is more commonly used as an equivalent for "gentlemen", the term most people use for cowboys is "vaqueros". (Old-fashioned term "charro" sometimes too, but that's more like "rider".) Call 'em vaqueros and Mexicans will know what you're talking about...

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big bubba

IÂ´m from Chihuahua and cowboys are so common that people donÂ´t find it amazing or anything,

That type of life you mention started in Mexico some years after the spanish conquer mexico, and was started by Mestizos (mix race people), since they were discriminated by the white spanish due to their indian blood , but also discriminated by the indians due to their spanish gens, they found a perfect way of life becoming cowboys, alone away from prejudice.

the Spaniards did not allow them to climb to good jobs, those where reserved to white spaniards, Indians in fact were treated by law as underage people and therefore they were not really free.

Also the Spanish had a very difficult time when indians in North of today's Mexico started to ride a horses,So they banned indians and black slaves to ride them..

Mestizos in the other hand were able to ride them, own horses, have also the right to own fire weapons, and most of all roam free to what ever place they liked...So , call it an inferiority complex, Mestizos spend most of the time on the top of a horse, showing his fire weapon on the side, they invented most of the Technics with the lace and the head in the saddle etc, but the most important thing was, when a spanish man try to impose his self to a mestizo and the mestizo had enough, he simply grab his saddle and move away on his horse to another ranch, since he was free.

Thats how cowboys started, and around the 1700Â´s even the spanish were amazed on how good caddle ranches were handled in what is now south west of the United States and the north of today's Mexico, then called New Spain...Later on the US took over half of that territory learned the life and change some things but basically they learned from those early cowboys most of that way of life.

Vet Dreamer

Mexico it's close to texas.

rhino72032

I'd vote for Mexico. The area around Ocala, is horse country in Florida. But the average guy that works on a horse farm lives in a single wide trailer and has a pregnant wife and a baby.
The average cowboy in Mexico is a working cowboy and he probably works the ranch because someone in his family owns the ranch.

Vaggaloor

MÃ©xico.

Lola

mexico
of course if you want a real cowboy go to texas

leegleze

Definitely Mexico. Everywhere, you will see "caballeros" (horsemen) wearing cowboy boots and hats. Even if they actually live in the city, most Mexican men dream of being cowboys and try to emulate them. The first responder is correct .. Mexico, I think, has the most working cowboys by far because the country has not been taken over by machines in the same way the US and Canada have. Therefore, we need cowboys (on their horses) to do the work. Viva los caballeros!!!

RicMon87

Not Florida, that's for sure.

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