American pride hits 25-year low: Gallup

A new Gallup survey found that American pride is at a 25-year low, days ahead of the country’s 250th anniversary. 

Poll results show that 33 percent of U.S. adults say they are “extremely proud” to be an American, while 20 percent said they are “very proud.”

Twenty-two percent of respondents are “moderately proud,” 15 percent are “only a little proud” and 9 percent are “not at all proud.”

In 2001, when Gallup first started tracking U.S. adult pride, 55 percent of U.S. adults said they were “extremely proud” to be American.

Last year, 41 percent of respondents reported they were “extremely proud” of their nationality.  

National pride is largely split by party. 

Gallup’s survey found that 70........

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