Americans Are Increasingly Segregating Themselves in Ideological Enclaves

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26. There is no longer agreement on what constitute core American values

In the late 1900s, most of the old world was ruled by the British, French, German, Russian, Ottoman and Chinese empires.

America stood for freedom, both political freedom in the form of democracy and economic freedom in the form of free enterprise and markets.

Patriotism reached its peak as America fought to make the world safe for democracy and then against fascism in WW I & II. Later, America was the pillar of the free world as it fought to contain Communism.

But for the last few decades international changes have brought about democracy and free markets in the majority of nations and in most of those that have significant power.

In America, identity politics have replaced patriotism. People feel more allegiance to their racial, linguistic, gender, socioeconomic, religious, regional, etc. identity than to the United States as a whole.