Analysis: In fact, America does not look the way it used to and, in fact, America’s discussion of its past has often been willfully or inadvertently incomplete.
shows how that sentiment manifests and overlaps with partisanship. Three-quarters of Americans, for example, say that the United States has always been a force for good in the world — but Republicans are 25 points more likely to hold that view than Democrats. Republicans are more than 30 points more likely to say that they have always been proud to be American.
More to the point, most Republicans say that the United States has made great progress in achieving “true racial equality,” a view that only about a quarter of Democrats hold. It’s probably useful to understand this question as something of a proxy for the issue raised above; obviously the United States has made great progress toward true racial equality since 1790, when Black people were enslaved and held literally no political power.
But then we get to another battery of questions that reveals some of the insecurity Republicans feel about the country in the moment. Most Republicans think that “America is in danger of losing its culture and identity” and that “things have changed so much that I often feel like a stranger in my own country” — obviously a strong assertion. PRRI asked respondents what traits were important for someone to be truly American, and here we get hints about that concern.
After all, most Republicans also think that being “truly American” means speaking English, being born in the United States and believing in God. Rejecting the idea that an immigrant or a non-Christian can be “truly American” does not sit comfortably with overwhelming support for acceptance of diversity. The poll has other indications of similar reservations.
The “change” being measured, then, clearly overlaps with race and immigration . Not only is any idea that America’s racial problems are mostly resolved being challenged, so is the primacy of White Christians.This can be useful. Both Trump and Fox News’s Tucker Carlson, for example, give every indication of believing that the power of White Christians is being diminished in the United States and each has tried to leverage that concern to build an audience.
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