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Posted on 05/06/2026 10:03:22 PM PDT by Cronos
While criticizing a recent speech, Ocasio-Cortez took issue with what she claimed was Rubio’s statement that America’s cowboys came from Spain.
“My favorite part was when he said that American cowboys came from Spain,” she said in her criticism of Rubio’s speech. “And I believe the Mexicans and descendants of African enslaved peoples would like to have a word on that.”
The History Channel reports that America’s cowboy culture stretches back further than America itself, to the era of Spanish colonialism.
“Hundreds of years before there was the American cowboy, there was the vaquero,” it says, referring to expert horsemen who came after the Spaniards landed in 1519 in what is now Mexico.
The first vaqueros, it says, were “Indigenous Mesoamerican men who learned from their Spanish colonizers how to herd cattle on horseback.”
Independent historian Pablo A. Rangel, who has studied vaquero history extensively, says it is “a forgotten history of centuries of horsemanship in the Americas that roots the vaqueros in the colonial past.”
The word “vaquero” itself comes from “vaca,” which is the Spanish word for cow. As Spain extended its North American Empire into what are now Texas, Arizona, New Mexico, and California, the vaquero played a crucial role. The vaquero domesticated wild horses, braided ropes, constructed saddles, and learned to use a lasso expertly.
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You think Harris will be the candidate in 2028?
a remake of Dumb and Dumber? "Dumberer and Dumberest"?
The socialist bartender has been hooked on the ketamine lately so...
One thing’s for sure, AOC knows where horseshit comes from.... Her mouth.
But, if she were, she would not pick AOC. She's not going to pick a woman. AOC is a loose canon, and I don't think would mesh well with Kamala anyway. She'll pick a man, and someone with at least some moderate credentials.
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Didn’t the Spanish also bring cows and horses to Florida?
Who is the gaucho amigo?
Why is he standing
In your spangled leather poncho
And your elevator shoes?
Bodacious cowboys
Such as your friend
Will never be welcome here
High in the Custerdome
When the Germans bombed Pearl Bailey.
AOC couldn’t “school” a fifth grader...
Ha!
LOL! What a Guy!
I thought World War Eleven got started when the Japanese chased the British Expeditionary Force from France by way of Dunkirk.
And horses.
And pigs.........The ancestors of our wild boars that escaped from captivity in DeSoto’s travels............
Mamas don’t let your babies grow up to be Democrats............
My grandfather was a cowboy on the King Ranch from 1903 to 1930. I recall him talking about Indian, black and Mexican cowboys being very good riders and wranglers. Cowboys were mostly white but as a group they were a very mixed bag of characters from all kinds of backgrounds.
And the cowboys in Hawaii, “paniolo”, also came from
Spain. It’s pidgin for “Hispaniola”.
I love the cowboy history and culture in America. When people called Bush a cowboy in a derogatory way, I was puzzled. “Cowboy” is a good thing — so I thought.
AOC couldn’t school a puppy
Is Westchester near New Rochelle?
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