AP-NORC Poll: 69% of Americans Still View U.S. as Exceptional or One of the Greatest Countries

U.S. stands above all other countries in the world, while 44 percent say it is one of the greatest countries along with some others. , up from 19 percent in an AP-NORC poll conducted in June 2016.

6 percentage points. S. adults now say a democratically elected government is extremely or very important to the country’s identity as a nation.

That share is down from 80 percent in 2021. Fifty-six percent say a shared American culture and set of values are extremely or very important to national identity, down from 65 percent in 2017. Derricka Wall, 24, of Chickasaw, Alabama, said the issue is not democracy itself but the people placed in office.

“It’s not that the democracy part is not working. It’s the people that are actually being put in office that is the problem,” she said. ” Younger Americans express greater skepticism. , compared with 22 percent of those 60 and older.

U.S. adults say the American Dream once held true but does not anymore. Thirty-three percent say it still holds true, and 15 percent say it never held true. ” Republicans and Democrats differ sharply on several measures.

Fifty-seven percent of Republicans say the American Dream still holds true, compared with 25 percent of independents and 17 percent of Democrats. S. Fifty-one percent of adults say the ability of people to come from other places to escape violence or find economic opportunities is extremely or very important to American identity.

Fifty-five percent say the mixing of cultures and values from around the world is extremely or very important. ” She noted that some people now carry papers showing immigration status in case they are challenged. Quintin Sharpe, 28, a Republican financial planner in a resort town on Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, said the American Dream remains accessible.