Update 12/24: It’s Christmas Eve, and Google has rolled out part two of their mini-series of holiday Doodles. The latest replaces the holly and candle glow with a rotating snow globe. With every ...

In both 2013 and 2016, the weakest support for “happy holidays” and “season’s greetings” was in the Midwest (42 percent in 2016), not the South (50 percent), as you might have guessed.

Support for “happy holidays,” however, drops dramatically for secular citizens in largely nonreligious states like Oregon. In these areas, ...