Survey: Americans' National Pride Nears Record Low

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Facts

  • A new Gallup poll has found that 41% of American adults are 'extremely proud' to be American, the fifth year in a row where 38%-43% of Americans answered that way. Another 26% said they're 'very proud,' which aligns with recent surveys.1
  • The 67% combined share of Americans who said they were either 'very' or 'extremely' proud is up from the all-time low of 63% in 2020, though much lower than the post-9/11 years. For example, in 2003, 70% of Americans said they were extremely proud of their nationality.2
  • Meanwhile, 18% said they were 'moderately proud,' 10% 'only a little,' and 5% said they were 'not at all' proud. There were also partisan divides among those who are extremely proud, with 59% of Republicans, 34% of Democrats, and 36% of independents answering in the affirmative.1
  • Further divisions came along generational and racial lines, with 54% of people 55 and older saying they were extremely proud compared to 21% of those aged between 18 and 34. Among white Americans, 47% are extremely proud compared to 31% of non-whites.3
  • The survey, which questioned 1,005 Americans between June 3 and 23, had a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 4% at the 95% confidence level.4

Sources: 1Gallup.com, 2Axios, 3NBC4 Washington and 4The Hill.

Narratives

  • Right narrative, as provided by The Heritage Foundation. The decline of patriotism is the result of a long, coordinated attack by Marxist intellectuals. After igniting their attack on Western values in the 19th century through communist economic theories, they shifted in the 20th century to cultural Marxism by dividing society along racial and gender lines. This culminated in generations of children learning to hate American history, traditions, and ancestry. American pride is lost because those in charge of teaching history hate America.
  • Left narrative, as provided by Nevada Current. There certainly has been a decades-long attack on the country, but corporate conservatives, not the left, are behind the scheme. Following historic policies banning child labor, raising minimum wages, and passing civil rights laws, the corporate donor class began offering voters a false sense of nostalgia for the 'good old days' while secretly pushing for policies that rob the middle class to make the rich richer. Patriotism is the love of America and its history of progress, not of the 1%.

Predictions