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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsPoll: Conservatives most likely to be offended by holiday greetings
We're going to start saying 'Merry Christmas' again, President-elect Donald Trump recently told a rally of his fans in Grand Rapids, Mich.
Google Trends data suggest that the so-called war on Christmas was canceled for lack of interest sometime around 2006, a year after the publication of the book of the same name. So Trump's determination to bring it back in 2016 he's been talking about it all campaign season may seem like something of a puzzle.
But of course, the fight against political correctness was one of the central themes of Trump's successful presidential campaign. A backlash against the (real or imagined) political correctness of the Democratic Party, the coastal elite and the mainstream media resonated with white working-class voters in the key states that put him over the 270 electoral vote threshold.
Public Policy Polling (PPP) is out this week with a new survey that untangles some of the tortured politics of holiday greetings. The firm asked 1,224 voters whether they preferred Merry Christmas or Happy Holidays. Some of the findings turn the politics of Merry Christmas on its head.
Only 9 percent of Americans preferred the nondenominational greeting, vs. 45 percent who prefer a traditional Merry Christmas." (46 percent said they didn't care.)
Only 3 percent of respondents said they'd be personally offended if somebody said Merry Christmas to them. But 13 percent said Happy Holidays would be offensive to them.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/12/20/poll-conservatives-most-likely-to-be-offended-by-holiday-greetings/?utm_term=.6450e7f098cf&wpisrc=nl_rainbow&wpmm=1#comments
Vinca
(50,267 posts)immoderate
(20,885 posts)--imm
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)Thus keeping Christ in Christmas as well as calling it a holiday. And given that the word holiday is derived from holy day....
sharp_stick
(14,400 posts)whining shitheads. I am sure glad to not live in a state of rage.
louis-t
(23,292 posts)and you say Happy Holidays back, when you know they are righties with a stick up their ass. What they gonna do, make it illegal to say Happy Holidays?
BuddyCa
(99 posts)before saying "Happy Holidays"
hatrack
(59,584 posts)Poor widdle conservatives - so easily offended by EVERY FUCKING THING.
Mariana
(14,854 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)Presenting Mr. Garrison's "Merry Fucking Christmas