As the United States approaches its 250th anniversary on 4 July, I polled 10,000 Americans to explore how they saw life in the US, their country and its place in the world, and what if anything the American Dream means to them today.
We asked our respondents how proud they were of the United States as it approaches its 250th anniversary, on a scale from zero to ten. Just under a quarter said they were extremely proud (10/10), while 5 per cent said they were not proud at all (0/10). Men were more likely to give a high score than women, and those aged 65 or over were more than twice as likely to do so as 18-24-year-olds, who were more likely to give a score of zero than ten. However, men in this age group were more than twice as likely as 18-24-year-old women to give a high score. Nearly three quarters of Republicans said they were very proud, compared to just over a third of Democrats. A majority of white Americans gave a high score, compared to just under a half of Hispanics and fewer than four in ten African Americans.
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