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Originally Posted by Newsboy
Hell no! In Savannah the whole city shuts down -- government, courts, banks, schools -- EVERYTHING!
I'm sitting at a bar in downtown Savannah right now. There are hundreds of thousands of people in the streets ... and St Patrick's Day isn't until Monday!
I'm having a house party this weekend for two friends that refugee out of Savannah every year. It's just too much for a lot of locals.
And to those that dismiss the South for celebrating this day, check your facts. Historically, Savannah has had a huge Irish population. Ergo the festival.
I have to laugh at this one, and most others taking place in the South. How many Americans of Irish-Catholic ancestry live in Columbia let alone the South? The South was hostile to Catholics for a long time, and probably still is in rural areas.
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Savannah is an ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Roman Catholic Church in the southern United States comprising 90 of the southern counties of the state of Georgia.
Most of South Georgia was built by the Irish ... They founded towns like Dublin and Fitzgerald while they built canals and railroads across the state. In addition to manual labor, they also formed the state's first fire brigades and police forces ...
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Savannah is an ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Roman Catholic Church in the southern United States comprising 90 of the southern counties of the state of Georgia.
Most of South Georgia was built by the Irish ... They founded towns like Dublin and Fitzgerald while they built canals and railroads across the state. In addition to manual labor, they also formed the state's first fire brigades and police forces ...
I know present day Southern Americans like to deny the embarrassing history of their region, but deny all you want. The South remained the last region of the US to be anti-Catholic. Of course there were pockets of small Catholic populations in the Southeast, but outside of New Orleans, Savannah, and a few other places not too much. Savannah is around 20% Catholic, while Georgia is around 9%. Philly is 60% Catholic, while PA is 27%.
In 1941 journalist-southern critic W. J. Cash argued that despite the South’s fast-rising urbanization and industrialization, white southerners had changed little since the nineteenth century. They shared a deep fear of Catholicism, Cash argued. In his view, white southern Protestants perceived Catholics as “the intolerable Alien, the bearer of Jesuit plots to rob them of their religion by force.â€(1) Cash wrote in the first half of the twentieth century, but even in the years after World War II, anti-
Catholicism persisted and brought Catholics attention disproportionate to their numbers in the South. Indeed, anti-Catholicism united southern white Protestants and gave them common cause with nonsouthern Protestants.
In the immediate postwar period, a number of white southerners shared the twentieth-century liberal conviction that Catholics were narrow-minded, unthinking puppets of Rome. Such individuals feared that the Catholic Church posed a threat to democracy and religious freedom. Unlike northern secular liberals, however, mainstream southerners’ suspicion of Catholics was firmly rooted in religion. And expressions of anti-Catholicism revealed the extent to which southern Protestants continued to link religious (i.e. Protestant) and American ideals.
I will find and post many more articles proving how anti-Catholic the South was if you want. And if you want to see how huge the Catholic population supposedly was and is in the South, take a look here. Southern states have the lowest numbers of Catholics period, except for the outlier Louisiana.
Lol, that right wing anti-gay city of Boston. You really want to compare Boston to Columbia in term of tolerance?
Compare Boston to Columbia in terms of "tolerance" if you must use that word? Absolutely. Compare Boston or Massachusetts to South Carolina? Absolutely not. Columbia's city council years ago voted unanimously and adopted an ordinance against discrimination based on sexual orientation in employment, housing, social services, and on down the line. And the LGBT community has been represented with a float and marchers in the St. Patrick's Day parade for years. The City of Columbia hangs gay rainbow flags in its central business district and warehouse entertainment district every year during PRIDE month. The subject of this thread is which cities have the best St. Patrick's Day celebrations. On the inclusion (tolerance) front you can't beat Columbia's festival, parade and all. Maybe Boston and New York's St. Patrick's Day parade organizer could take a field trip to Columbia and learn a thing or two about inclusion (tolerance).
There was an old saying in the south that said if you wanted to get the baptists or jehovah's witnesses from knocking on your door just tell them you are catholic.
I've never had a Baptist knock on my door. Two JWs knocked on the door yesterday and my partner used his gift of gab to make them feel as though they had been saved by the time they left. They looked shocked and at a loss as though their day's work were done. He's a social worker. Sorry to stray from the topic. For the most part, though, southern stereotypes don't fly in Columbia.
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