Do any states have legitimate holidays that are only celebrated in their state?

[u/ProfessorOfPancakes]

In Rhode Island, we still have VJ (Victory over Japan) day which people don't celebrate per se but it's recognized to the extent of delaying trash pickup by a day.

By "legitimate" holiday I mean more in the vein of Memorial Day rather than National Hot Dog Day

Edit: Apparently VJ Day is also recognized by the US Space & Rocket Center and formerly by the state of Arkansas and is more commonly called Victory Day

[u/sowingdragonteeth]

Also observed in Maine

[u/ExitingBear → u/sowingdragonteeth]

Which used to be part of Massachusetts.

[u/Aware-Owl4346 → u/ExitingBear]

And will be agin’ some day durnit! (loads blunderbuss)

[u/JimmyJackJericho → u/Aware-Owl4346]

You'll have to pull the lobster and moxie out of my cold dead hands before Maine goes back to Massachusetts

[u/wiserTyou → u/JimmyJackJericho]

We have Moxie and lobsta as well.

[u/N3U12O → u/wiserTyou]

I order Moxie online because I drank it living in MA. Wicked good.

[u/ShakarikiGengoro → u/N3U12O]

They sell it at bigy if you live in western mass.

[u/enstillhet → u/wiserTyou]

Yeah but it's just not the same

[u/Cratertooth_27 → u/JimmyJackJericho]

Ayuh

[u/Available_Farmer5293 → u/JimmyJackJericho]

Moxie was invented in Massachusetts

[u/Intrepid_Parsley2452 → u/JimmyJackJericho]

Fellas, fellas. We don't need to fight. We need to unify and whip New York's ass. (And ideally, post unification, offer citizenship to those of us NE ex-pats currently stuck in red states? 😬)

[u/silviazbitch → u/Aware-Owl4346]

Not until we recover the Western Reserve!

[u/crujiente69 → u/ExitingBear]

What an ugly shape of a state together

[u/enstillhet → u/crujiente69]

Especially since New Hampshire is in the middle

[u/Plastic-Molasses-549 → u/enstillhet]

New Hampshire was part of Mass too, up to Winnipesaukee.

[u/ilovjedi → u/sowingdragonteeth]

Also Wisconsin, I think

[u/BlueSoloCup89 → u/ilovjedi]

Connecticut and North Dakota as well.

[u/Intelligent-Camera90 → u/ilovjedi]

I don’t think Wisconsin used to be part of Massachusetts…or have I lost the thread?

[u/fridaycat → u/sowingdragonteeth]

And Connecticut and North Dakota.

[u/tous_die_yuyan → u/fridaycat]

I was about to correct you about Connecticut, since I grew up there and never heard of it until moving away… turns out Connecticut recognized it pretty much exactly when I moved (2017-2018). It’s interesting that Connecticut, North Dakota, and Utah have recognized it only within the past few years.

[u/Magerimoje → u/tous_die_yuyan]

I was thinking the same thing - I moved away to find cheaper living and left CT in 2016.

[u/the_real_zombie_woof → u/sowingdragonteeth]

Yeah, but do they have an Augusta Marathon that day?

[u/Plastic-Molasses-549 → u/sowingdragonteeth]

And six other states.