The percentage of Americans who highly rank the holiday is up from 53 percent last year. Thirty-six percent say the anniversary of the Declaration of Independence in 1776 is “somewhere in between.”
“Over the years, Americans have consistently ranked the Fourth of July second only to Christmas as the nation’s most important holiday,” according to the survey report.
However, only a little over a third of American adults (34 percent) believe the Founding Fathers “would consider the United States a success,” up from 27 percent last year.
“Forty percent (40 percent) now say the Founding Fathers – George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin, among others – would view America as a failure, down from 53 percent last year. Twenty-six percent (26 percent) are undecided,” the survey found.
Democrats (42 percent) are more likely than Republicans (29 percent) and unaffiliated voters (31 percent) to believe the Founding Fathers would view present-day United States a success.
