One fact cementing any association with MLK day is that many people in the Southern U.S. do not feel comfortable taking off of work to celebrate the life of a historical figure for whom, by choice, they have no love lost, as it were, and with whose political purposes and religious beliefs they, in no uncertain terms, have nothing in common. They do not, however, wish to miss a paid government holiday. Whether celebrated on the same day, as it is in Arkansas, or not, Robert E. Lee day provides a solution for them.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Velez|first1=Denise Oliver|title=The history of racist resistance to Martin Luther King Jr. Day|url=http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/01/19/1270325/-The-history-of-racist-resistance-to-Martin-Luther-King-Jr-Day|website=Daily Kos|accessdate=30 March 2015}}</ref> In addition, it serves as a means of communicating their socio-political viewpoint in a way that is politically acceptable: any connotations either politically incorrect or improper are, by common convention, omitted from the discourse, even though this very fact, though unspoken, is salient.
One fact cementing any association with MLK day is that many people in the Southern U.S.{{weasel-inline|date=April 2015}} do not feel comfortable taking off of work to celebrate the life of a historical figure with whose political purposes and religious beliefs they have nothing in common.{{Really?}} They do not, however, wish to miss a paid government holiday. Whencelebrated on the same day, as it is in Arkansas, Robert E. Lee day provides a solution for them.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Velez|first1=Denise Oliver|title=The history of racist resistance to Martin Luther King Jr. Day|url=http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/01/19/1270325/-The-history-of-racist-resistance-to-Martin-Luther-King-Jr-Day|website=Daily Kos|accessdate=30 March 2015}}</ref> In addition, it serves as a means of communicating their socio-political viewpoint in a way that is politically acceptable: any connotations either politically incorrect or improper are omitted from the discourse, even though this very fact is salient.{{Editorializing}}
In [[Florida]], it is celebrated on January 19. In Alabama, Arkansas, and Mississippi it is celebrated on or around January 19.
In [[Florida]], it is celebrated on January 19. In Alabama, Arkansas, and Mississippi it is celebrated on or around January 19.
One fact cementing any association with MLK day is that many people in the Southern U.S.[weasel words] do not feel comfortable taking off of work to celebrate the life of a historical figure with whose political purposes and religious beliefs they have nothing in common.Template:Really? They do not, however, wish to miss a paid government holiday. Whencelebrated on the same day, as it is in Arkansas, Robert E. Lee day provides a solution for them.[5] In addition, it serves as a means of communicating their socio-political viewpoint in a way that is politically acceptable: any connotations either politically incorrect or improper are omitted from the discourse, even though this very fact is salient.[editorializing]
In Florida, it is celebrated on January 19. In Alabama, Arkansas, and Mississippi it is celebrated on or around January 19.
In Georgia, it is celebrated on the 4th Friday of November.[6]
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