A record low of 58 percent of US adults say they have high levels of pride in America, with 41 percent “extremely” proud and 17 percent “very” proud to be American.
Pride in America has declined to a new low as the nation nears Independence Day later this week, according to a new poll. The results were also split by party lines, with Democrats primarily causing the drop.
The poll from Gallup released on June 30 showed that a record low of 58 percent of US adults say they have high levels of pride in America, with 41 percent "extremely" proud and 17 percent "very" proud to be American. The result is down nine points from 2024 and five points lower than the previous low point in 2020.
19 percent said they were "moderately" proud to be an American, 11 percent answered, "a little," and 9 percent were "not at all" proud to call the country home. Until 2018, less than 10 percent of American adults were consistently saying that they did not have pride in the country. In January 2001, the result was that 87 percent of US adults said they were proud to be American, however, that has declined, largely starting in 2017.
From 2005 to 2016, the result did not vary far from 83 percent of Americans being proud of the country, but since 2017, there has been a more rapid decline.
The new low has also mainly been connected to Democrats, with only 36 percent saying they are extremely or very proud to be American, whereas Republicans have usually hovered around having 90 percent of those in the poll answer that they are "very" or "extremely" proud to be an American.
The pride that independent voters have felt in the country has also reached a low point, with only 53 percent saying they are very or extremely proud to be American.
Younger Americans are also less proud of the country than older Americans, Gallup reported from the poll results. The report from Gallup stated, "Despite their greater expression of pride, all generations from millennials through the Silent Generation have shown declines of 10 or more points in the percentages extremely or very proud since 2001-2005. Most of that change has occurred since 2016."
Gen Z Democrats in particular feel very little pride in being American, as only 32 percent have a high level of pride in the country. However, when it comes to Republicans, Gen Z individuals on the right tend to have much more pride in the country, but do not match up to the level of pride that older Republicans have.
"These changes have occurred mostly over the past decade, and have done so amid greater pessimism about the economic prospects for young people, widespread dissatisfaction with the state of the nation, greater ideological divides between the parties, unfavorable images of both parties, and intense partisan rancor during the Trump and Biden administrations," the report stated.
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