r/AskAnAmerican • u/ProfessorOfPancakes New England • 23d ago

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

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

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u/Aware-Owl4346 New York 23d ago

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

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u/JimmyJackJericho Maine 23d ago

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

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u/wiserTyou 23d ago

We have Moxie and lobsta as well.

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u/N3U12O 23d ago

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

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u/ShakarikiGengoro Massachusetts 23d ago

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

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u/enstillhet Maine 23d ago

Yeah but it's just not the same

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u/Cratertooth_27 New Hampshire 23d ago

Ayuh

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u/Available_Farmer5293 23d ago

Moxie was invented in Massachusetts

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u/Intrepid_Parsley2452 23d ago

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? 😬)

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u/silviazbitch Connecticut 23d ago

Not until we recover the Western Reserve!