<story><title>For Decades, Southern States Saw Thanksgiving as an Act of Northern Aggression</title><url>https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/thanksgiving-pumpkin-pie-culture-war</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>alexpw</author><text>&amp;quot;Modern Thanksgiving was first officially called for in all states in 1863 by a presidential proclamation of Abraham Lincoln. [...]Lincoln proclaimed a national Thanksgiving on the final Thursday in November, explicitly in celebration of the bounties that had continued to fall on the Union and for the military successes in the war.&amp;quot; - &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Thanksgiving&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Thanksgiving&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s easy to see why the &amp;quot;Southern States Saw Thanksgiving as an Act of Nothern Aggression&amp;quot; from Lincoln&amp;#x27;s action.  He extended the meaning of the celebration to include victory of the North over the South, and asked the South to observe it, according to wikipedia.</text></comment>
<story><title>For Decades, Southern States Saw Thanksgiving as an Act of Northern Aggression</title><url>https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/thanksgiving-pumpkin-pie-culture-war</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>seanmcdirmid</author><text>The Fourth of July wasn’t strongly celebrated until the 90s (after Gulf War I) in the small southern town I was living in during the 80s&amp;#x2F;90s. Something about still being bitter about the Civil War (which we were taught was not about slavery, but states rights, ugh).</text></comment>