American Pride Slips to New Low
This report isn’t really a surprise. With the Democrats and their media outlets constantly yammering about slavery, racism, Islamophobia, transphobia, ICE rounding up “citizens”, MN leaders saying nothing about dead soldiers on Memorial Day but instead speaking about George Floyd…the list goes on.
Democrats, as a rule, are the ones taking anti-depressants, using foul mouths to scream at those with whom they disagree, prone to godlessness and much more likely to focus on all the imperfections of America and ignore the fact that it’s probably the greatest nation God has brought forth on earth.
Conservatives would look at slavery and say, “slavery has been around for all of human history, but it was America who fought a bloody Civil War to be one of the first to ban it.” Democrats are likely to say, “America was built by slavery and racists! It’s filled with white privilege and white supremacy and nothing has been done to atone for that!”
And now throw in Donald Trump as President and Democrats are not flying US Flags and singing, “I’m Proud to Be an American where at least I know I’m free.”
And just to be clear, we understand that God is no respecter of nations. He sets them up and tears them down as He wishes. But recognizing that God set up this nation to be a friend to Israel and to bring Justice and freedom using Christian-God fearing founders is something we can be thankful for and proud of.
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A record-low 58% of U.S. adults say they are “extremely” (41%) or “very” (17%) proud to be an American, down nine percentage points from last year and five points below the prior low from 2020. The 41% who are “extremely proud” is not statistically different from prior lows of 38% in 2022 and 39% in 2023, indicating most of the change this year is attributable to a decline in the percentage who are “very proud.”
These findings are from a June 2-19 Gallup poll conducted before the June 21 U.S. military action in Iran. It is unknown whether Americans’ national pride has been affected by that action.
In addition to the 58% of U.S. adults who are extremely or very proud, 19% say they are “moderately” proud, 11% “only a little” proud and 9% “not at all” proud. The combined 20% on the lower end of the pride scale essentially ties the record 21% measured in 2020. Until 2018, less than 10% of U.S. adults had consistently said they had little or no national pride.
In January 2001, when Gallup first asked Americans how proud they were, 87% said they were extremely or very proud. After the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the figure increased to 90%, and it held at that level or higher between 2002 and 2004.
The percentage who were extremely or very proud dropped to 83% in 2005, but it did not vary significantly from that mark for the next 11 years. In 2017, a new low of 75% said they were proud, and national pride has deteriorated further since then.
Pride Tumbles Among Democrats; Independents Also at a New Low
Democrats are mostly responsible for the drop in U.S. pride this year, with 36% saying they are extremely or very proud, down from 62% a year ago. This is only the second time Democrats’ pride has fallen below the majority level, along with a 42% reading in 2020, the last year of the first Trump administration. That poll was conducted during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic and shortly after the murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police officers.
Political independents’ pride has also reached a low point, with 53% expressing a great deal of pride, down seven points from last year, which had been the previous low for this group. Independents’ pride has been declining since the early 2000s, dropping below 80% for the first time in 2005, then below 70% in 2019 and below 60% this year.
Republicans' level of national pride has been much steadier, typically registering above 90%, including 92% this year, up from 85% in 2024. The only years in which fewer than nine in 10 Republicans were proud were 2016 and 2020 through 2024. All but 2020 were when a Democratic president was in office.
https://news.gallup.com/poll/692150/american-pride-slips-to-new-low.aspx