You know what, seeing as you have these anti-Southern feelings, feel free to never celebrate Shrove Tuesday again. http://www.mardigrasdigest.com/Bureau/Mobile/joe_cain_procession.htm
Admittedly, a bit brief, but it's not really much there that needs to be said. Let's just say the reason we still have Mardi Gras is because a former Confederate officer came up with an ingenious way to defy Union authority. And it's not "Segregation of the Dead" as you so boldly proclaim. It's that in the past, Protestant elements in this country tried to force their will on the rest of the population, so many religions felt it would be great if they could have their own dedicated cemetaries, no different than veteran's cemetaries, pet cemetaries, family cemetaries, etc.
> seeing as you have these anti-Southern feelings
Sigh. Are you *truly* that dense? I do not have "anti-Southern" feelings. Neither do I have "anti-German," "anti-Japanese" or "anti-Russian" feelings. But the Confederate, Nazi, Imperial and Commie regimes were evil abominations that the world is better off without. Those who wave Confederate, Nazi, ImpJap and Soviet flags are not only celebrating the historically evil, they're also celebrating a bunch of damned losers.
> feel free to never celebrate Shrove Tuesday again.
I never celebrated it for the first time. Be kinda hard to celebrate it *again.*