Overview

• Only 58% of U.S. adults said they were extremely or very proud to be American in Gallup’s June survey, down from 67% in 2024 and marking the lowest level since the question began in 2001.
• Self-reported pride among Democrats plunged to 36%, a 26-point drop from last year, and independents hit a new low at 53%, while Republican pride rose to 92%.
• Generation Z reported the weakest national pride at 41%, followed by millennials at 58%, with pride increasing among older cohorts to 83% among the Silent Generation.
• Gallup attributes the long-term erosion of patriotic sentiment to pessimism about young people’s economic prospects, widespread dissatisfaction with national leadership and intensifying ideological polarization.
• The 56-point gap in pride between Republicans and Democrats is the widest Gallup has recorded, underscoring how political divides now shape Americans’ sense of national identity.