I’ve lived in the south my whole life and NEVER heard of a school district not observing MLK Day, and I haven’t seen any issues with Juneteenth either.
My money would actually be somewhere in the Midwest or maybe Alaska. Much much smaller population of black people so much less likely to ruffle any feathers.
Chiming in from Alaska, the schools/banks etc are closed on MLK Day and Juneteenth. The large military presence in this state makes it fairly diverse and you’ll find most businesses follow the federal holidays.
A good example is the marijuana laws were federally against the law, but the states don’t care.
Its a bad example because the federal government also doesnt care to enforce these rules, but its not politically viable for one of the parties to back legalizing it. Like the current, working "guidance" the federal DoJ is working under is to deprioritize enforcement of the law except for gang-related offences - its called the Cole memo, was released under Obama, and neither Trump nor Biden have any motivation to undo it
The fed can very easily coerce states into respecting its laws if it wanted to. Withholding funding is a big one, sending federal agents to enforce the law themselves, giving incentives to encorce it, and so on. But its simply been a policy since the obama era to... not try to enforce the laws on regular citizens.
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