A new Gallup poll shows that American’s pride in their country remains low relative to its highs in the 2000s. Veuer’s Matt Hoffman has the story.
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00:00This 4th of July, Americans were relatively unenthusiastic about their country.
00:04A Gallup poll conducted last month found that only 41% of respondents said they are
00:08extremely proud to be American. Another 26% called themselves very proud.
00:14That might sound like a high percentage in total,
00:16but it's been steadily declining over the last couple decades.
00:19In 2002 and 2004, 91% of respondents called themselves extremely or very proud,
00:25reflecting the upsurge in patriotism which occurred after the September 11th attacks.
00:29The numbers also show a clear partisan divide. Since Gallup began asking this question in 2001,
00:35Republicans have always registered more national pride than Democrats.
00:38This year, 59% of Republicans called themselves extremely proud compared to 34% of Democrats.
00:44Within the last 10 years, Republicans' extreme pride peaked in 2019 at 76%,
00:49three years into the Trump administration but just before COVID.
00:52Not surprisingly, that also represented Democrats' lowest amount of pride, 22%.
00:57But Republicans were even prouder back in 2003,
01:00registering 86% extreme pride at the outset of the Iraq war.
01:05So this year's lower numbers may not be anything to worry about.
01:08Historically, sometimes pride really does go with before a fall.