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Smaller Majority "Extremely Proud" to Be an American
Gallup ^ | July 2, 2015 | Art Swift

Posted on 07/03/2015 8:39:16 AM PDT by C19fan

As Independence Day approaches, most in the U.S. say they are proud to be an American, including a slight majority, 54%, who are "extremely proud." The percentage saying they are "extremely proud" is slightly lower than in recent years and down from peaks at and around 70% between 2002 and 2004, after 9/11.

(Excerpt) Read more at gallup.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: obama; patriotism
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To: C19fan
I heard Rush's segment yesterday about the article that said that some (significant) number of young people would gladly move to another country (and leave the United States behind) if they could find more economic opportunity there.

At first I found it depressing.

But then, later in the day, I was thinking...

I grew up in the 1960s and '70s. If someone had polled the teenaged and early-20s baby boomers about "would they leave America if they could," I bet at least as many would have answered as the millenials did in the survey Rush quoted.

That time period was very chaotic compared to today. Riots in every major city. Multiple political assassinations - two a time span of less than three months in 1968.

The draft, the campus riots, the baby-boomer demographic effect... when you add it all up, the typical baby boomer thought the USA sucked.

The type of survey Rush quoted might have placed the number at 75%, I think might be a plausible guess.

Teenagers and most 20-somethings are ignorant. Always have been, always will be.

21 posted on 07/03/2015 9:11:19 AM PDT by Steely Tom (Vote GOP: A Slower Handbasket)
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To: C19fan
I wonder why Gallup did not have a break out by race...

I believe they did, but it wasn't included in this report.

I heard those figures a day or two ago and, as I recollect, barely half of all whites were "proud to be American" while around 80% of blacks felt that way.

22 posted on 07/03/2015 9:13:19 AM PDT by okie01 (The Mainstream Media: IGNORANCE ON PARADE)
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To: Ann Archy

You sure those are American women? or are they internationalistic socialist women?

Obama used that “citizen of the world” epithet to describe himself in 2008. These women, if they don’t lie (no need to call Captain Obvious here), would also apply that epithet to themselves. Double agents and moles always say they belong to the country they are subverting.


23 posted on 07/03/2015 9:14:35 AM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: SunkenCiv

Gotcha. You fully support the current admin and court’s actions. Plus the self neutering of congress.

And you grant yourself the right to condemn any who disagrees with you to exile.


24 posted on 07/03/2015 9:21:17 AM PDT by MortMan (All those in favor of gun control raise both hands!)
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To: Ann Archy

{{{HUGS}}}


25 posted on 07/03/2015 9:23:51 AM PDT by no-to-illegals (If America Cared would a moslem cair?)
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To: C19fan

The left is taking over EVERYWHERE and no one is stopping them.

Yeah, the lack of pushback is totally unAmerican.


26 posted on 07/03/2015 9:28:30 AM PDT by Tzimisce
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To: C19fan

As an American military veteran, the Continental 48 is the best place on the globe for me.

As a ‘seasoned citizen’, I might say that we could dump 47% of the existing examples of the gene pool, just to see the bottom of the mess, before we clear it up.

As a ‘seasoned Nativist’, the percentage just might be fiddled with, a bit more or so.


27 posted on 07/03/2015 9:31:39 AM PDT by Terry L Smith
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To: Tzimisce

I believe the British sum up Americans precisely in the British saying this regarding Americans ... Americans can always be counted on to do the right thing after exhausting all other possibilities.


28 posted on 07/03/2015 9:32:13 AM PDT by no-to-illegals (If America Cared would a moslem cair?)
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To: Don Corleone

“coming out of the aftermath of WW1 nicely. “

If draconian terms of the Versailles treaty which brought on a worthless currency and France hauling heavy industry out of the Ruhr Valley are “nicely,” then, yeah. IOW, no.


29 posted on 07/03/2015 9:33:34 AM PDT by sparklite2
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To: Steely Tom
One person turned the chaos of the 1960s and 1970s around: Reagan. The only candidate who is even worthy to tie his shoelaces is Ted Cruz. We have also had over a quarter century of intensifying liberal dominance of academia, the Fortune 500 companies, and big entertainment. With the exceptions of Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana, all the state governments have surrendered to the Federal mandate to the marriage of same sex couples. (I do not count Texas, whose governor and attorney general issued little more substantive than strongly worded statements. Pro bono legal representation will not protect local officials from fines, civil asset forfeiture, or Federal civil rights criminal prosecution, if they lose in court.)

A RINO or Democrat in the White House in 2017 will not end the long march of the Left. A RINO will only slow the rate of decay. It is not inconceivable that Bernie Sanders may be our next President, in which case we can count on more intense persecution, even beyond Obama. Never give up hope, but our odds of surviving as a relatively free nation are grimmer than they were in the 1970s.

30 posted on 07/03/2015 9:34:37 AM PDT by Wallace T.
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To: Tzimisce

No one?

If they seem that powerful to you, then remember the spiritual aspect. Those who go to the prince of this world for power are eventually consumed by that power.


31 posted on 07/03/2015 9:53:14 AM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: sparklite2

Having a social-democratic Weimar Republic was no help either.


32 posted on 07/03/2015 9:54:01 AM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: C19fan

What does it mean to be an American anymore?

After last week, what is there left to be proud of except if you are some kind of sexual deviant?

The rainbow flag now flies over the White House. American Citizens are second class citizens and illegal invaders now hold the government of the United States in their hands.

Happy 4th of July.


33 posted on 07/03/2015 10:11:40 AM PDT by P-Marlowe (Resistance to Tyrants is obedience to God!)
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To: pfflier
We still are the shining city on the hill.

Have you been living in a cave for the last 6 1/2 years?

The City on the Hill is in flames and the hill has eroded.

We have become a festering wart on a butt.

34 posted on 07/03/2015 10:14:07 AM PDT by P-Marlowe (Resistance to Tyrants is obedience to God!)
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To: C19fan

I was *once* extremely proud....now I actively support secession.


35 posted on 07/03/2015 10:27:33 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Secession;It's The Only Answer)
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To: pfflier
We still are the shining city on the hill.

That shining city *was* Ferguson,Missouri.But after years of decay it burned to the ground a few months ago.

36 posted on 07/03/2015 10:30:14 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Secession;It's The Only Answer)
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To: P-Marlowe

Allowing Obama to shape your thinking?


37 posted on 07/03/2015 11:09:03 AM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Gay State Conservative

That’s what Obama wants you to pursue. He wants you to think he’s unstoppable without tearing the USA apart.


38 posted on 07/03/2015 11:09:53 AM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: P-Marlowe

I’m sorry you live in that world.


39 posted on 07/03/2015 12:12:56 PM PDT by pfflier
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To: C19fan

Gallup needs to break out a lot of their stuff by race...


40 posted on 07/03/2015 1:17:56 PM PDT by GOPJ (The left's perfectly happy with slavery so long as they're holding the whip..Billthedrill)
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