How Ideology Protects the Young From Ever Growing Up

Demonstrators take part in a die-in during a Michael Brown memorial protest in Brooklyn, New York on Aug. 9, 2015. Kena Betancur/AFP via Getty Images

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Over the Fourth of July weekend, a widely publicized poll revealed that only 36 percent of the youngest demographic cohort polled—ages 18 to 24—were either very or extremely proud to be American. In all other groups, including blacks and Hispanics, the number who were proud to be American was more than 50 percent.