In the story "Everyday Use," does one's "heritage" mean any less to the speaker and Maggie than it does to Dee?

I suspect that many people will answer this question with
"No, quite the contrary. It means more to them." And they may be right, of course, but
as I read the story, heritage is important to all of the characters in Alice Walker's
short story "Everyday Use."

Heritage, as I see it, is the
collection of stories that we tell ourselves about where we are from. There's no one
right way to go about telling those stories. Maggie and the narrator seem to me to
prefer focusing on stories that don't change the setting (the house, the immediate
family, etc. all figure prominently) whereas Dee seems to me to prefer to create
partially new stories that have settings that include (an admittedly mythical,
pre-slavery) Africa, for example.

When I teach this story,
I find my students often siding with the narrator and Maggie. I try to counter their
initial reading, though, by asking them what's so wrong about trying to preserve a quilt
rather than putting it to "everyday use."