Most southerners are happy to have the day off, regardless of its name, and many head to the lakes and beaches and mountains for one last fling before fall work agendas have to be addressed. The only things southerners share in common on Labor Day is the lack of banking and postal service and the traffic jams from people s Friday exoduses and Monday evening returns. Even at the schools, colleges, and universities that stay open on Labor Day, the First September Monday mood is one of breathing in a lung-full of summer air and hoping it will last until November and Thanksgiving break. There are three months at hard labor ahead. But southerners are accustomed to that.
Every day is Labor Day in the South.