Columbus Controversy
According to the Wall Street Journal, 22 states don't
observe the holiday. Why the disparity? Well, among other
reasons, a strong contingent feels that the Genoese
navigator's sailing the ocean blue in 1492 introduced a
dark period of colonization. Protesters and academics have
argued for years that the existing American population,
plus earlier evidence of Viking houseguests, make the
notion of "discovery" misleading.

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