I am originally from the east coast, and it just surprises me how strange the people are over here. Back in the east coast, people take EVERYDAY holiday seriously and the streets are all decorated and everything. Maybe it is just California?
2006-11-23 08:07:01 · 16 answers · asked by Ohay 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Holidays ➔ Other - Holidays
I do not think that the weather has anything to do with it. The southern part of the west coast is hotter than California. People here just dismiss the Holidays like they are nothing!
2006-11-23 08:29:44 · update #1
It may have something to do with the fact that most major events in the United States' history took place on the East Coast.
2006-11-23 08:09:17 · answer #1 · answered by discmiss1 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We live in a small town area that celebrates DAYLIGHT! Our Christmas decorations are elegant. Do you think it has to do with the lack of change of seasonal weather? They are too laid back? I am a nut for all holidays. We celebrate Veterans and all others. If the Vets were ignored, I'd be upset. I'm originally from just south of Chicago and where I live now (5 hrs away) things are totally different. Been here a long time and still am not used to it. Celebrate your heart out! Doni
2006-11-23 08:12:50 · answer #2 · answered by doni 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Probably nostalgia. Most people are used to having a white christmas, or having it cold on christmas. Those who haven't experienced a white christmas, truly have missed out. Sometimes the atmosphere needs to be there, like the Macy's Parade. I marched in that parade back in 1986, and with all the streetside watchers, I was amazed at how festive thay were during and after the parade. That feeling just hung around until christmas was over.
2006-11-23 08:11:57 · answer #3 · answered by X_YELLOWJACKET_X 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It may be because the Weather Is Warm/Hot always,(just fishing) It would be hard I would think for some to get into the spirit os Christmas when putting up a tree with out Snow. UMMMM
2006-11-23 08:16:37 · answer #4 · answered by sweettoni37 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We're just as patriotic, just a bit more laid back than the east coast people. To some of us native Californians you easterners seem pretty tightly wrapped.
2006-11-23 08:16:11 · answer #5 · answered by PuppetDog 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Things in general. I'm in NY now (used to be CA) and almost every vehicle has a yellow ribbon. I won't see that in CA!
Maybe it's because I only live 30 miles from the place where we whopped those dern feriner Red Coats!
2006-11-23 08:12:24 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well to be completely frank with you, I think that it has to do with the inate knowledge that tomorrow your home could be covered with fifteen feet of molten lava, or fall directly to the bottom of the sea. The eastern seaboard of the USA does not have that same fate predicted so strongly.
2006-11-23 08:11:54 · answer #7 · answered by zahbudar 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
How does patriotism have anything to do with holiday decorations? Oh, right! Only Christians who do what gay, meth-snorting pedophile evangelical ministers tell them are real Americans... I forgot.
2006-11-23 08:09:40 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
eastcoast has the snow that gives ppl a sense of a more holiday season.. westcoast has hollywood (not to be sarcastic) but what does being patriotic have to do with holidays? what kind of holidays are u talking about?
2006-11-23 08:15:27 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
took 200 years for what became usa to reach west coast.
2006-11-23 08:08:46 · answer #10 · answered by cork 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋