When I was a kid, people in northern Virginia didn't really talk much about Juneteenth, at least that I recall. Of course, people in our bigoted LDS ward talked about "Pioneer Day" - an obscure regional celebration of racist white fanatics being chased out of the Midwest by reasonable people for defiantly and illegally practicing polygamy with pretensions to theocracy. These bigoted kooks then invaded Mexico and seized indigenous land, which was then bizarrely celebrated by their bigoted descendants in enclaves like Utah and southern Idaho. I can still remember one of these Fresh off the Boat from Provo or Ricks types explaining to an even more recent arrival that Pioneer Day wasn't as big a deal with people "back East," in part because they seemed to celebrate the Fourth of July more.
You know, the actual National Day of Independence.
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