Americans who celebrate Christmas do so in a variety of ways. Among Americans who celebrate Christmas:
* More than 8-in-10 (83%) say they typically watch Christmas movies like “It’s a wonderful life” or “A Christmas Story.”
* Roughly two-thirds (66%) report that they usually attend religious services on Christmas Eve or Christmas Day. Roughly 6-in-10 (59%) say they sing Christmas carols as part of their holiday celebration. Only about 1-in-4 (26%) say they light advent candles.
* Roughly equal numbers say they read “’Twas the Night Before Christmas” (43%), the famous Santa Clause poem, as read the biblical story about the birth of Jesus (40%) as part of their traditional Christmas celebrations.
Another poll result provided by The Montgomery firm Anzalone-Liszt shows historic low opinions for Congress (11% approval) so lumps of coal for all of them!
My wife and I will be in the Washington National Cathedral on Christmas morning.
ReplyDeleteFor many years the Cathedral broadcast this service nationwide-first by NBC and then by ABC. When we lived in Alabama we sometimes flew Up Nawth for the family and to attend the Cathedral's Christmas Day service.
We were astonished, in the last years of the broadcast, to see a huge TV truck parked outside--from Alabaster, Alabama!
I guess there wasn't any football game to broadcast on Christmas Day.
(Now the service is only broadcast via "live stream." A pity.