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Old 08-06-2010, 12:12 AM   #46
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Default Re: A-way down South in Dixie

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Originally Posted by jmurrell View Post
Maybe it's changed since I was a youngun then. Summers I spent in rural Mississippi Memorial Day was the big deal. I had an uncle who explained, quite forcefully, that the Fourth was a Yankee event, and not appropriate. He was slightly more colorful than that of course. Could just be a family quirk though.
Family thing, I suspect. Any excuse for a party is inherently valid and the 4th was not a Yankee Victory of them crackers what tried to rebel, but a commemoration of our independence from Britain, both North and South.

That said, Nascar is responisble for the growth of memorial day as a holiday. ;)
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