Are you proud to be an American?

These days, it seems more and more of us aren’t.

A recent NBC News poll found 33% of respondents were “extremely proud” to be an American, while 23% were “very proud” and 10% declared themselves “not proud at all.”

A 2025 Gallup poll found that American pride had slipped to a 24-year low, with 41% affirming they were “extremely proud” and 17% saying they were “very” proud ‒ down from 55% and 32%, respectively, when Gallup first began asking the question in 2001.

This decrease in patriotism is particularly........

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