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The one growing gap between Dems and Republicans that shouldn’t ever exist — patriotism

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Democrats take great offense at being accused of being unpatriotic — but the data doesn’t lie. 

A new NBC News poll captured the partisan gap over pride in America.

Overall, 56% of Americans are extremely or very proud of the country, but only 29% of Democrats, compared to 90% of Republicans. 

That’s a yawning gap, and about a matter that really shouldn’t be controversial.

We aren’t talking about abortion, or Donald Trump’s White House ballroom, but an elemental thing — pride in country — that in most times and places has been taken for granted. 

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Once upon a time, that was the case here. The Gallup poll found in January 2001 that nearly 90 percent of Americans were extremely or very proud of the country. 

In 2017, according to Gallup, 75% of the public said that they extremely or very proud of America — a low at the time — and it’s been down since.

The decline has been driven largely by Democrats.

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