American pride is dwindling, a new poll suggests

The percentage of Americans with extreme pride in their country has reached a record low — again.

In a new Gallup survey of U.S. adults released ahead of the Fourth of July, 45 percent of respondents said they're "extremely" proud to be American. That's the lowest number since Gallup began asking the question in 2001, and it's the second year in a row that the percentage has dipped below 50 percent. Last year, Gallup reported that 47 percent of adults said they were "extremely" proud to be American, down from 51 percent the year prior.

In this year's poll, 25 percent of respondents said they're "very" proud to be American, while 18 percent said they're "moderately" proud, nine percent said they're "only a little" proud, and three percent said they aren't proud at all. Gallup notes that the number of Americans with extreme pride in their country has been "steadily weakening," having declined from 57 percent in 2013. The percentage of adults who report either being extremely or very proud has also declined, dropping from 85 percent in 2013 to 70 percent in 2019.

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Gallup says this decline is "largely driven by Democrats," just 22 percent of whom say they're extremely proud to be American. That number has plummeted since President Trump's election, as in 2016, 44 percent of Democrats said they were extremely proud to be American. Gallup notes, however, that Republicans' extreme pride in their country was always at 68 percent or higher when former President Barack Obama was in office, and that number is currently 76 percent.

This survey also asked Americans to identify specific aspects of the United States that give them pride in their country, and just 32 percent said they're proud of the American political system, compared to 68 percent who said it doesn't make them proud.

Gallup conducted its survey by speaking with 1,015 U.S. adults over the phone from June 3-16. The margin of error is 4 percentage points. Read the full results at Gallup.