Newsweek, June 2025
While millions of Americans will celebrate the founding of the United States this week with fireworks or cookouts, those July 4 festivities will be set to a backdrop of declining national pride driven by Gen Z, according to a new poll.
Why It Matters
American national pride reached a record low in a new Gallup poll released on Monday. The survey found wide generational and partisan differences in American patriotism, which has declined across the board over the past few decades. It found particularly low levels of national pride among Gen Z, an increasingly important age group in elections. The youth vote shifted rightward in the 2024 race, with President Donald Trump gaining new ground among voters between the ages of 18 and 29, according to election data.
What To Know
Only 58 percent of Americans reported feeling very or extremely proud of their country, according to a Gallup poll conducted from June 2 to June 19. That’s the lowest point since 2001, when the pollster began asking the question in its surveys. That drop is largely fueled by Gen Z voters, only 41 percent of whom said they are proud to be an American in an average of polls from 2021 to 2025. This compares to 58 percent of millennials, 71 percent of Gen X, 75 percent of baby boomers and 83 percent of the Silent Generation.
