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Posted on 09/06/2026 5:58:31 PM PDT by DoodleBob
A new YouGov survey on the September 11, 2001 attacks explores how Americans see the impact of the attacks 25 years later, including whether Sept. 11 should be a national holiday, how Muslims are treated compared to people of other religions, and whether the War on Terror has been worth the cost.
About half (51%) of Americans think Sept. 11 should be a national holiday to commemorate those who died in the 2001 attacks. 26% say it should not be a national holiday. Republicans are more likely than Democrats to say it should be a national holiday (62% vs. 43%).
27% of Americans think the American people focus too little on the memory of the events of Sept. 11, and 8% think they focus on it too much. 46% think the American people focus on it about the right amount. Republicans are about twice as likely as Democrats to say that Americans focus too little on the memory of Sept. 11 (43% vs. 19%).
In September 2013, fewer Americans (20%) said the American people focus too little on the memory of the events of Sept. 11.
Three-quarters (75%) of Americans remember where they were on September 11, 2001, when they heard about the attacks. Only 15% of adults under 30 say they remember where they were when they heard about the attacks. 90% of Americans 30 and older remember where they were when they heard about the attacks.
Among people who remember where they were on Sept. 11, 2001, 81% say they very clearly remember where they were and what they were doing. 14% say they somewhat clearly remember this.
Nearly half (46%) of Americans say they first learned about the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks from watching the news. 15% first learned about the attacks from school and 14% first learned about them from a family member.
54% of Americans think Americans who were born after 2001 generally do not have a good understanding of the September 11, 2001 attacks. 23% think people born after 2001 do have a good understanding.
Americans 45 and older are more likely than younger adults to say Americans born after 2001 do not have a good understanding of the attacks (62% vs. 45%).
Nearly two-thirds (64%) of Americans say the Sept. 11 attacks changed the U.S. completely; 25% say it changed the U.S. a little. 37% of Americans say the attacks changed the world completely. About as many (41%) say it changed the world a little.
43% of Americans think that the U.S. has recovered from the Sept. 11 attacks and 35% say it has not. Many say that the attacks are affecting the following a lot in the U.S. today: the amount of surveillance by the government (67%), spending on security (59%), the way Muslims are treated (54%), military spending (54%), and foreign policy in the Middle East (53%).
Democrats are more likely than Republicans to say the Sept. 11 attacks are affecting a lot today the way Muslims are treated in the U.S. (71% vs. 42%) and U.S. immigration policy (58% vs. 45%). Republicans are more likely than Democrats to say the attacks affect a lot today how patriotic Americans feel (51% vs. 29%) and national unity (35% vs. 24%).
Since Sept. 11, 2001, the U.S. has fought against the threat of terrorism through military operations abroad and increased security and surveillance inside of the U.S. About half (48%) of Americans — including 71% of Republicans and 37% of Democrats — think these actions have been worth the cost. 25% say they have not been worth the cost. 35% of Democrats and 12% of Republicans hold this view.
Comparing today with 2001, 45% of Americans say we are now safer from terrorist attacks, including 13% who say we are much safer. 20% say we are less safe, including 10% who believe we are much less safe. Republicans are more likely than Democrats to believe we are safer from terrorist attacks now than we were in 2001 (60% vs. 37%).
52% of Americans say that since the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, Muslims in the U.S. have been treated worse than people of other religions. 25% of Americans say Muslims have been treated about the same as people of other religions, and 8% say Muslims have been treated better than people of other religions.
Democrats are more likely than Republicans to say Muslims have been treated worse than people of other religions in the U.S. since the Sept. 11 attacks (72% vs. 28%).
Since Sept. 11, 2001, which kind of perpetrator has committed the greatest number of violent attacks in the U.S.? 24% of Americans believe it has been right-wing extremists, 19% say it has been Islamic extremists, 17% say lone wolves who aren’t affiliated with any particular group or ideology, and 13% say left-wing extremists.
Republicans are more likely than Democrats to say left-wing extremists (26% vs. 2%) and Islamic extremists (29% vs. 14%) have committed the greatest number of violent attacks in the U.S. since Sept. 11. Democrats are more likely than Republicans to say right-wing extremists have committed the greatest number of violent attacks in the U.S. since the Sept. 11 attacks (45% vs. 6%).
Methodology: This article includes results from an online survey conducted on August 20 - 23, 2026 among 1,098 U.S. adult citizens. Respondents were selected from YouGov’s opt-in panel to be representative of adult U.S. citizens. The sample was weighted according to gender, age, race, education, 2024 presidential vote, 2020 election turnout and presidential vote, baseline party identification, and current voter registration status. 2024 presidential vote, at time of weighting, was estimated to be 48% Harris and 50% Trump. Demographic weighting targets come from the 2019 American Community Survey. Baseline party identification is the respondent’s most recent answer given around November 8, 2024, and is weighted to the estimated distribution at that time (31% Democratic, 33% Republican). The margin of error for the overall sample is 4.1 percentage points.
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Carrying this idea through, it’s important to recall that there is a revisionist history demon that comes with the advance of time, always. Indeed, Roberta Wohlstetter in Pearl Harbor: Warning and Decision (1962), undertook to answer the question of whether the administration knew of the attack in advance. I bet in 1966 there were a bunch of hippies repeating this claim.
On a parallel timeline basis, 1962 is 2021. Sure enough, by 2021 there were plenty of hippie-like views on 9/11.
What is different now vs then, is the radicalization of the opposition. While some hippies probably believed Roosevelt stood and watched as our men died on Dec 7, 1941, they were likely not fans of Japan or wished that Japan won.
Today, there is a demolition derby of leftists who think it’s racist to talk about the hijackers joined by nutjobs who think 9/11 was an inside job or the work of Israel etc. That radicalization has whittled down the impact of culture to reinforce the horrors and learnings of 9/11.
Finally, the MSM is anti-America for 51 out of 52 weeks of the year. This coming week we will see a little patriotism in the MSM. A little.
What needs to be done is for folks to talk to the Millennials and GenZers about that day, and not rely on the MSM or culture to do our job.
America’s demographic makeup has changed significantly since 2001: the White population fell from 69% to 58%, while the Hispanic population grew from 13% to 20%, the Black population from 12% to 14%, and the Asian population from 4% to 7%; American Indian/Alaska Native and multiracial Americans together make up the remaining 2%.
Having been at Ft. McNair, DC, the memory is seared in my mind. I could see the smoke rising from the Pentagon all day. The fort was “closed” and no one was permited to enter or leave it until 5pm. Fortunately the South Capitol Bridge was open by then, thus I was able to get across the Anacostia River and on to home.
My Army civilian job as a historian had me in the Pentagon itself several times a week. I had been in the Army G-1’s office on the previous week on business, thus had met with all of the folks who were killed that day from the airliner’s impact.
Having been at Ft. McNair, DC, the memory is seared in my mind. I could see the smoke rising from the Pentagon all day. The fort was “closed” and no one was permited to enter or leave it until 5pm. Fortunately the South Capitol Bridge was open by then, thus I was able to get across the Anacostia River and on to home.
My Army civilian job as a historian had me in the Pentagon itself several times a week. I had been in the Army G-1’s office on the previous week on business, thus had met with all of the folks who were killed that day from the airliner’s impact.
No one asked me. Kick ever muzzie out of the nation. Nuke their nations. Every gd one of them
The first Boomers were born in 1946 so none had a living memory of Pearl Harbor.
Much of the problem can be traced back to that idiot George W. Bush. He set the tine.
FDR after Pearl Harbor:
“Yesterday, December 7, 1941-a date which will live in infamy-the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.”
W after 9/11.
“Islam is peace.”
Say what you want about FDR. But he correctly identified the enemy from the get-go. And he knew exactly how to deal with them.
From the article: “52% of Americans say that since the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, Muslims in the U.S. have been treated worse than people of other religions. 25% of Americans say Muslims have been treated about the same as people of other religions, and 8% say Muslims have been treated better than people of other religions.”
Stats do not back this up.
Ugh. Correction to my post #7.
George W. Bush set the tone, not the tine.
I’m so upset with Bush II that sometimes I don’t think clearly when writing things about him.
It’s a religion?
Thanks for the correction.
Yeah. A different religion
You damn right it needs to be a National Holiday but only after they have determined why it happened. That way people can be prepared and able to make sure it does not ever happen again.
People are just now finding out why Pearl Harbor happened. Frig’ FDR!!
Says them.
All you will ever need to know about Islam…
pic.twitter.com/EeWTnKVgUY— James Woods (@RealJamesWoods) September 6, 2026
25 years later America is now bankrupted, weakened, and Muslims are here and trying to take over.
My thoughts? F’ New York! They voted for the muslim Obama and Mandami!
New York FORGOT immediately after the attacks.
“Never Forget!”, my ass!
We sort of had no choice.
After 8 years of Clinton, it was either 4 more years with Mr PMRC or Dubya. Thanks for a few hundred voters in Florida, we got the lesser of 2 evils. Can you imagine how Gore would have responded to 9/11?
In 2004, it was either Dubya or Lurch. What‘s a man to do?
Now, the interesting thing is that had Lurch won, he’d have presided over the 2008 meltdown and we’d have dodged Obama….but elected President McCain.
Good stuff.
I would also add that years earlier was back when antiwar activists blabbed “Vietnam isn’t attacking the US. If there ever were a country that attacked us on American soil then I would be for our fighting back in a war.”
How could anyone think we give too much attention to a tragedy that has been so suppressed?
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