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Most Americans say Founding Fathers not pleased with state of the nation

(Xinhua)
Updated: 2008-07-05 11:36

WASHINGTON-- As Americans celebrated their 232th Independence Day Friday, a new poll found most of them think that the country's Founding Fathers would not be happy with the current situation of the nation.

The June 26-29 survey conducted by CNN network and Opinion Research Corp shows 69 percent of adult Americans said the signers of the Declaration of Independence would be disappointed by the way the nation has turned out overall.

Americans didn't always feel that way, pollsters said.

In 2001, 54 percent of those responding to the same poll thought that the signers of the Declaration of Independence would be pleased with the state of the country today.

Still, most respondents of the new poll took great pride in their country.

Sixty-one percent said they were extremely proud to be Americans while another 28 percent said they were very proud.