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Columbus Day 2020: A Holiday in Search of a Name

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… A 2015 survey conducted by the Pew Research Center found that Columbus Day was the most inconsistently-observed US holiday.”[3] In 2019, three more states — New Mexico, Vermont, and Maine — voted in the name change as well.” Some states like Oregon, Iowa, and Nebraska have never observed it. Footnotes. [1]

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Columbus Day/Indigenous Peoples’ Day 2019

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A 2015 survey conducted by the Pew Research Center found that Columbus Day was the most inconsistently-observed US holiday.”[2]. In 2019, three more states — New Mexico, Vermont, and Maine — voted in the name change as well.” ”[2]. The controversy surrounding the holiday isn’t likely to go away.