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Live TV. This Day In History. History Vault. Recommended for you. The War on Christmas. The History Behind Brexit. But Christmas came early this year. He made a similar promise last year, when he also suggested boycotting Starbucks after the coffee chain abandoned its traditional holiday cup design. Conservatives agree.

Party preference was the sharpest dividing line on this question, but young people are also far more likely to prefer a non-denominational salutation 67 percent , as are black Americans 69 percent.

Is this new? Not especially. PRRI asked the same question three years ago; Republicans largely felt the same way, though slightly less strongly only 61 percent of Republicans reacted negatively back then.

Jones: 66 percent favor a secular greeting, up from 58 percent in And by - in what is far from the only example of synergy between the man who is now US president and Fox News - Donald Trump was capitalising on those conservative fears during his presidential election campaign. And mention of the word Christmas.

Also a season that included theatre shows and open air ice rink, Frankfurt open air Christmas market and the Christmas seasonal retail offer. It just depends how many rogue journalists you get in any given year. We tell them it's bollocks, but it doesn't seem to make much difference.

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