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Tuesday, March 28th, 2023

America Pulls Back From Values That Once Defined It, WSJ-NORC Poll Finds

Author:     Aaron Zitner
Source:     The Wall Street Journal
Publication Date:     March 27, 2023 | 5:30 am ET
 Link: America Pulls Back From Values That Once Defined It, WSJ-NORC Poll Finds
Stephan:  

By every measure I can find the American people are in a crisis that is creating two countries. Here is the latest rigorously done poll. The only common interest we seem to share is an interest in making money because it is the only thing that matters. A very sad business and I do not see how we go on like this.

To read and download the full research paper upon which this article is based see: https://s.wsj.net/public/resources/documents/WSJ_NORC_ToplineMarc_2023.pdf

Patriotism, religious faith, having children and other priorities that helped define the national character for generations are receding in importance to Americans, a new Wall Street Journal-NORC poll finds.

The survey, conducted with NORC at the University of Chicago, a nonpartisan research organization, also finds the country sharply divided by political party over social trends such as the push for racial diversity in businesses and the use of gender-neutral pronouns.

Some 38% of respondents said patriotism was very important to them, and 39% said religion was very important. That was down sharply from when the Journal first asked the question in 1998, when 70% deemed patriotism to be very important, and 62% said so of religion.

The share of Americans who say that having children, involvement in their community and hard work are very important values has also fallen. Tolerance for others, deemed very important by 80% of Americans as recently as four years ago, has fallen to 58% since then.

Bill McInturff, a pollster who worked on a previous Journal survey that measured these attitudes along with NBC News, said that […]

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1 Comment

  1. Rev. Dean on Thursday, March 30, 2023 at 1:13 am

    It is getting a lot harder to live a normal life in the USA today. Prices are TOO hish on everything. I remember selling gas fo $0.24 per gallon for gas, and $4.00 per month for cable TV, when I installed it in the 70’s.