Americans’ pride in their country has steadily fallen since Gallup started conducting a survey on the subject in 2001.
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Now, as Statista’s Katharian Buchholz reports, national pride in the U.S. has plummeted to an all-time low, as the fewest respondents in the history of the poll said they were extremely proud to be an American. The measure dropped to just 38 percent upon Gallup’s latest survey in June 2022.
Adding up those Americans who felt extremely or just very proud of their country, the measure fell from 69 percent in 2021 to 65 percent in 2022. This is still 2 percentage point above an all-time low of 63 percent in 2020.
In terms of partisanship, Democrats have predictably seen the largest drop in national pride. Only 26 percent of Democrats responded that they were extremely proud of their country in 2022 – down five points from 2021 and 30 points since 2013. But Republicans were also affected, losing 18 percentage points since a recent high of 76 percent extremely proud respondents in 2019, landing at 58 percent saying they were extremely proud of America in 2022.
National pride, like many other topics in the U.S., has become intertwined in political polarization, having culminated in a record 54-point gap in feelings of extreme pride between Republicans and Democrats in 2019.
The survey also shows that older Americans are more likely to have extreme pride in the U.S. when compared with younger ones, while men are also much more likely than women to show extreme national pride, Read More
100-Year-Old Veteran Laments “This Is Not The Country We Fought For”
Presented with little comment, aside from to suggest that we take a few brief minutes to stop and listen to what World War II veteran Carl Dekel has has to say on his 100th brithday:
“Nowadays… People don’t realize what they have, the things we fought for, and the boys that died for it – It’s all gone down the drain.”
“Our country’s gone to hell in a handbasket. We haven’t got the country we had when I was raised. Not at all.”
Choking back tears the Marine reflected on his brothers in arms who died in combat:
“It’s not the same. That’s not what our boys – that‘s not what they died for.”
“People don’t realize what they have. They bitch about it.”
Spend less than three minutes of your ‘independence’ day listening to what :
Despite expressing his grave fears for the future, Deke noted that his 100 years has taught him to “just remember everything’s beautiful and live every day to the fullest. Just enjoy everything you possibly can.”
The Greatest Generation will soon be gone forever. Will their message get through or is it too late (or are we too blind) to understand the mistakes of the past, report concludes.