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[Carol]

Susan wrote: 
> Carol, would you post the source for the statement that 94% of 
Americans celebrate Christmas?
> 
> And, I think we can always share feelings of love, peace, and joy by 
> saying just that -- not relegated to Christmas, or Christian holiday 
> greetings..
> 
> Susan
>
Carol:

Oops. I misremembered. It's actually 96%. The original site on which I
found the statistic was not exactly objective: It was selling "It's
okay to wish me a Merry Christmas" buttons. (I wouldn't mind buying
one if they're still available next year.) The URL for that site is
http://www.wmamc.com/charterchurches/index.html 

Meanwhile, a Google search for "percent of Americans celebrate
Christmas" (in quotes for exact phrase) gave me the following results:

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=36071 
96%

http://media.www.chicagoflame.com/media/storage/paper519/news/2007/12/10/Opinions/Where.Have.The.Jolly.Ho.Ho.Hos.Gone-3140972.shtml
96%

http://www.bpnews.net/bpcolumn.asp?ID=2082 95%

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=36071
96%

http://www.saychristmas.org/rights/default.aspx?cid=3549 95%

http://www.citizenlink.org/CLtopstories/A000003323.cfm 95%

There are many others, all of which seem to be citing the same 2005
poll by Fox News/Opinion Dynamics. Here's a quote from the original
article, which can be found at
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,177355,00.htm :

"Virtually all Americans — 95 percent — say they celebrate Christmas,
4 percent celebrate Hanukkah and 3 percent Kwanzaa.

"A 57 percent majority considers Christmas a religious holiday, 14
percent see it as a cultural holiday and 27 percent see it as both.
Americans consider a Christmas tree a cultural symbol (69 percent)
rather than a religious one (14 percent)."

And here's a link to the poll itself:

http://www.foxnews.com/projects/pdf/poll_religion.pdf

Carol, who thinks that Christmas is both a secular and a religious
holicay and does believe that there's a war on Christmas, sad to say