Monday, July 4, 2011

7/1: Independence Day — Seventeen Seventy When?

...A poll finds that one-quarter of Americans don't know what country we won independence from. That's OK... since Americans have the freedom to be ignorant of their history, or alternatively, make up their own.

Amplify’d from maristpoll.marist.edu

And, for the second year, about one in four Americans doesn’t know from which country the United States declared its independence.  While 76% correctly cite Great Britain, 19% are unsure, and 5% mention another country.

Read more at maristpoll.marist.edu
 

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