According to a new Gallup poll, pride in the United States has slipped significantly, “with less half of adults surveyed now saying they’re ‘extremely’ proud to be Americans,” reports The Hill.
That’s the lowest point since the pollster began asking about it in 2001.
“Seventy percent of U.S. adults said in the new poll that they were proud of be Americans, but 2019 marks the second consecutive year that fewer than half — 45 percent — identified as ‘extremely proud.’”
The numbers were even more dramatic for Democrats.
“Only 22 percent of Democrats responded with extreme pride, half of what it was before President Trump’s 2016 election,” the Hill says.
More than three-quarter of Republicans surveyed — 76 percent — said they have extreme pride in being American, but that’s 10 percent lower than the record high in 2003, after the 9/11 attacks, the high point for all Americans.
Less than a third — 32 percent — of all respondents to the new poll said they were proud of the American political system. And just 37 percent said they were proud of the nation’s health and welfare system.