Where is Christopher Columbus?


Had an interesting conversation this morning.
It started with "Is this Columbus Day?"
We both looked at each other and said "I don't know".

That's when I realized no one was talking about it.
I saw nothing on the news, nothing online.
Even Google, where there usually is a cartoon depicting
what day it is, or this day in history, or something
like that, nothing...  The top of the page was blank.

It seems like the media is downplaying the day.
Even retailers.  Where are the Columbus Day sales?

Now I know over the past couple of years there has
been a movement, and more than a little controversy
about sliding Columbus out of the picture and pushing
the Nina the Pinta and the Santa Maria back over the
horizon, back to Spain where they came from.

The question which then rose in my mind was
"Does the whole country feel this way?"
Does everyone agree we just erase this part of history
or is there a vocal minority actually steering the ship.
[sorry about  the pun]

The answer might be in a series of charts
put together by YouGov.com.
You take a look and you decide.



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