{"id":2059,"date":"2026-06-30T03:39:45","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T03:39:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cnnglobalnews.com\/2026\/06\/30\/american-pride-takes-a-hit-poll\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T03:39:45","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T03:39:45","slug":"american-pride-takes-a-hit-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/?p=2059","title":{"rendered":"American pride takes a hit \u2013 poll"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Gallup survey pointed to widening partisan and generational divides behind the decline<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Americans are reporting the lowest level of national pride in more than two decades, according to a Gallup poll released on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The survey comes just days before the US marks the 250th anniversary of its independence.<\/p>\n<p>Only 58% of US adults said they were <em>\u201cextremely\u201d<\/em> or <em>\u201cvery\u201d<\/em> proud to be American, the lowest figure since Gallup began asking the question in 2001.<\/p>\n<p>Another 22% said they were <em>\u201cmoderately proud,\u201d<\/em> 15% were <em>\u201conly a little proud,\u201d<\/em> and 9% said they were <em>\u201cnot at all proud.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The share of respondents describing themselves as <em>\u201cextremely proud\u201d<\/em> fell by eight percentage points from a year earlier.<\/p>\n<p>Gallup said the decline was driven largely by widening partisan differences, with Democrats and independents expressing far lower levels of national pride than Republicans.<\/p>\n<p>Some 70% of Republicans said they were <em>\u201cextremely proud\u201d<\/em> to be American, compared with 28% of independents and just 14% of Democrats. The 56-point gap between Republicans and Democrats was only slightly narrower than last year&#8217;s record 57-point divide.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n        <span><strong>Read more<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<figure>\n            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mf.b37mrtl.ru\/files\/2026.06\/thumbnail\/6a2a9178203027636123870c.jpg\" alt=\"FILE PHOTO.\"><figcaption><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/641369-us-moral-acceptability-poll\/\">Americans rethinking sex, gambling and family values \u2013 Gallup<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The poll also highlighted a growing generational split.<\/p>\n<p>The share of Americans who described themselves as <em>\u201cextremely proud\u201d<\/em> fell by 10 percentage points among adults aged 18 to 34 and by 12 points among those aged 35 to 54, leaving those groups at 14% and 30%, respectively. Among Americans aged 55 and older, the figure stood at 48%, little changed from last year.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/news.gallup.com\/poll\/711938\/american-pride-falls-year-record-low.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">survey<\/a>\u00a0was conducted between June 1 and 15 among a random sample of 1,001 adults across the United States.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Gallup survey pointed to widening partisan and generational divides behind the decline Americans are reporting the lowest level of national pride in more than two decades, according to a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/?p=2059\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":2060,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2059\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}