See also: Clanners. They never really get over their institutionalized prejudice against Freeborns (i.e. The entire Inner Sphere) until the actual Clan Wars when they finally forsake their ties and come out swinging openly for the Sphere, and they persist using iron wombs for a long time afterwards, though they also recruit natural-born mercs to join them, and the 'old guard' of Dragoons who were raised by the Clans have mostly died off. They may have been from one of the most progressive Warden clans, but the 'truth' that they're the best of the best is still something that was drummed into them literally from birth, and didn't go away until they did.