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[SkyDancer]

Probably at home. Not too sure anywhere else.

[Blue Turtle]

I do what Donald J Trump does....I say: Merry Christmas & Happy Holidays! This way, I get the traditional MAIN holiday in and satisfy the easily offended with happy holidays.

[GregoTX]

Merry Christmas everyone!

[be-baw]

All I’m hearing is Merry Christmas in Michigan.

[mountn man]

The local McDonalds had Dec. 31 as New Years Eve and Jan. 1 as New Years Day

Dec.25 was Holiday
Dec. 24 Holiday Eve

[chajin]

One reason for the difference is African-Americans (20 percent of the South in this sample), who strongly prefer "happy holidays" despite their high levels of religiosity.

Why? Because of Hanukkah, or Kwanzaa (Dr. Karenga's made-up Ma'at version of Hanukkah), or because "Merry Christmas" is too white? That's one I honestly don't get...

Merry Christmas!

[BwanaNdege]

“May you have a Joyous Christmas”

and

“Happy Holy Days” (that’ll mess with some PC minds!)

[elcid1970]

That can’t be right about the South.

[Malsua]

I work in the NYC Metro area and there are a LOT of people who aren’t Christians, so it’s happy holidays. That said, I’ve never found a single person who is offended by Merry Christmas.

I also work with a lot of SE Asian Indians, and while most are Hindus, Sihks or other non Christian religions, they LOVE Christmas. Fortunately I don’t deal with many Mooslimes.

[mykroar]

Merry day celebrating the birth of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ”

[cld51860]

I work for a government agency in the Western sector of that map. I have been replying to emails with Merry Christmas. Might get some heat for it, but I don’t care.

[Proud_texan]

Huh, if it's not Christmas or Hanukkah what's the holiday? And is it now offensive to say Happy New Year? Are their people who self identify as Mayans and follow a different calendar?

Oh well, too complicated for me but I am very pleased by the large number of signs saying "Keep Christ in Christmas" in my (Central Tx.) town.

A very, very blessed Christmas to all of y'all.

[Zakeet]

[fella]

Here in Texas whenever someone tells me “Happy Holidays” I reply “And a Merry Christmas to you”, they usually return a “Merry Christmas”. Sometimes I’ll toss in a Happy Chanukah And Happy Festifuss just to confuse them. This year I’ve dropped kwonzah because it seems to have dried up.

[Tennessee Conservative]

I’m not buying it. Everywhere I go clerks are saying “Merry Christmas”. I haven’t had a single person say “Happy Holidays” and I am definitely in the South.

[Larry Lucido]

I was Merry Christmased at PNC Bank and CVS.

[The_Reader_David]

I’ve always regarded it as a matter of context. Sometimes “Merry Christmas” or “Christmas” is what is meant and to substitute “Happy Holidays” or “Holiday” is offensive to Christians. Sometimes “Happy Holidays” is a reasonable substitute for “Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year”, in which case it has the virtue of brevity, or is used to wish all and sundry, Christian or not, a good celebration of whichever holiday(s) they keep during December and January, in which case it shouldn’t be offensive to anyone.

(After all, we Christians actually have a lot of holidays this time of year: the Feast of the Nativity (a.k.a. Christmas), the Synaxis of the Theotokos (for us in the East), the Feast of the Protomartyr and Archdeacon Stephen, the Feast of the Holy Innocents, the Feast of the Circumcision, and Holy Theophany (usually called Epiphany in the West), along with joining secular society in celebrating the civil New Year).

So to all and sundry: Happy Holidays (including all those listed in the parenthetical paragraph to my fellow Christians.

[markman46]

got a merry christmas at a dr’s office and walmart yesterday here in california

[Daniel Ramsey]

I have been in Australia for several weeks on vacation and tecently i have never heard a Happy Holiday PC crapola comment, its ALWAYS Merry Christmas, and with feeling.

Call Oz what it is but at least they are honest.