The survey, carried by Fox News, marks a substantial shift from a 2017 poll by the same team, where 51% reported they were proud in 2017, and 69% were proud in 2011. Forty-eight percent of Democratic respondents said they lacked pride in their country, compared to 60% of Republican respondents and 64% of independent respondents.
Just five years ago, 69% of Republican respondents and 54% of independent respondents said they were proud of the United States.
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Black poll respondents, meanwhile, were a little prouder, with their lack of pride decreasing from a 28-percentage-point margin in 2017 to a 9-point margin in 2022. Hispanic respondents moved in the opposing direction, according to the survey, with respondents moving from being proud of the U.S. by 18 points in 2017 to not proud by 24 points in 2022.
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"Whereas once being proud of America was treated as a prerequisite for being patriotic, that too has been subsumed by partisanship. It seems for many pride and patriotism are no longer about our democratic freedoms but about the person in the White House," Democratic pollster Chris Anderson, who conducted the Fox News poll with Republican Daron Shaw, said in a statement.
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The network carried the poll between June 10 and June 13 with cooperation from Beacon Research and Shaw & Company Research. There were 1,002 registered voters polled, with a margin of error of plus or minus 3 percentage points.
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Progressives are seemingly so frustrated by the current state of American politics that even the columnists at The New York Times are urging them to find some patriotism this July 4th and perk up.
In two separate guest essays written for the outlet, both Duke law professor Jedediah Britton-Purdy and contributing opinion writer Margaret Renkl addressed the obvious lack of enthusiasm for America on the left.
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They both claimed that if progressives are going to take this country back after the Supreme Court reversal of Roe v. Wade for example, they better start getting excited about caring for it.
In her column called, "Democrats Need Patriotism Now More Than Ever," Britton-Purdy cited a Quinnipiac poll showing that "68 percent of Republicans said they would stay and fight, compared with 40 percent of Democrats," if the country were invaded.
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She stressed, "Conservatives often say that liberals don’t really like this country, and these figures suggest they might have a point. In progressive circles, claiming patriotism is, at best, an eyebrow-raiser."
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Britton-Purdy admitted the challenges American leftists are facing, stating that during this July 4th, America has the "world’s highest incarceration rate, sky-high per capita carbon emissions, an epidemic of gun violence and abortion bans across much of the American map."
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