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KAHLENBERG  \nPROGRESSIVE POLICY INSTITUTE  \nOCTOBER 2024  \n @ppi |  @progressivepolicyinstitute |  /progressive-policy-institute  \nHOW TEACHING AMERICAN IDENTITY CAN STRENGTHEN WORKING AMERICA  \nABOUT PPI'S CAMPAIGN FOR WORKING AMERICA  \nThe Progressive Policy Institute launched its Campaign for Working America in February  \n2024. Its mission is to develop and test new themes, ideas, and policy proposals that can help Democrats and other center-left leaders make a new economic offer to working Americans, find common ground on polarizing cultural issues like immigration, crime, and education, and rally public support for defending freedom and democracy in a dangerous world. Acting as Senior Adviser to the Campaign is former  \nU.S. Representative Tim Ryan, who represented northeast Ohio in Congress from 2003 to 2023. Since 2016, Democrats have suffered severe erosion among non-college white voters and lately have been losing support from Black, Hispanic, and Asian working-class voters as well. Since these voters account for about threequarters of registered voters, basic electoral math dictates that the party will have to do better with  \nthem to restore its competitiveness outside metro centers and build lasting governing majorities. The party's history and legacy point in the same direction: Democrats do best when they champion the economic aspirations and moral outlook of ordinary working Americans.  \nTo help them relocate this political north star and to inform our work on policy innovation, PPI has commissioned a series of YouGov polls on the beliefs and political attitudes of non-college voters, with a particular focus on the battleground states that have decided the outcome of recent national elections.  \nThis report is the seventh in a series of Campaign Blueprints that can help Democrats reconnect with the working-class voters who have historically been the party's mainstay.  \nHOW TEACHING AMERICAN IDENTITY CAN STRENGTHEN WORKING AMERICA  \nHow Teaching American Identity Can Strengthen Working America  \nRICHARD D. KAHLENBERG  \nOCTOBER 2024  \nINTRODUCTION  \nAmerican liberal democracy is being threatened in away not seen in generations, in large measure, because white identity politics on the right, and racial identity politics on the left, make fights over policy seem existential. When policy battles appear to be part of a larger war rooted in a clash of ethnic and racial identity groups, both sides are more willing to disregard longstanding liberal democratic norms.  \nOn the right, Donald Trump tried to disrupt the peaceful transition of power after he lost the 2020 presidential election, and he talks of suspending the Constitution if he becomes president again. Left-wing activists, meanwhile, shout down speakers and create a chilling environment where people feel they can’t freely speak their minds.1  \nPundits often assume that working Americans, who must prioritize kitchen-table economic concerns, don’t care about these systemic issues. In fact, however, working Americans are especially affected by the breakdown in national unity and the decline in patriotism that serve as root causes of the erosion in liberal democratic beliefs.  \nTo begin with, the decline in American patriotism directly offends the value systems of many non-college-educated voters. Polls reveal a patriotism gap between progressive elites and working Americans of all races. While 69% of working-class voters said that America is the greatest country in the world, among progressive activists, only 28% agreed.2  \nIt is good news, therefore, that Vice President Kamala Harris has, in her campaign for president, embraced a full-throated patriotism  \nHOW TEACHING AMERICAN IDENTITY CAN STRENGTHEN WORKING AMERICA  \nthat puts her on the side of working Americans. At the Democratic convention, Harris advanced a powerful visions of liberal patriotism that identified the United States as “","cbCaimWuiKt9DhMq","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaimWuiKt9DhMq","pdf",1015028,11,"English","# Introduction\n## Mission and campaign context\n## Identity politics and threats to liberal democracy\n## Patriotism gap and its political consequences\n## Inclusive patriotism and national unity","[{\"question\":\"What does the report identify as the main threat to American liberal democracy?\",\"answer\":\"It argues that identity politics on both the right and the left makes policy conflicts feel existential, increasing disregard for liberal democratic norms.\"},{\"question\":\"What evidence does the report cite about a patriotism gap?\",\"answer\":\"It reports survey results showing working-class voters are far more likely than progressive activists to say America is the greatest country in the world.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the report connect patriotism and social cohesion to non-college working Americans?\",\"answer\":\"It states that declines in patriotism and cohesion inhibit non-college Americans’ efforts to build a fairer society and that racial division often harms working-class cooperation.\"}]","How Teaching American Identity Can Strengthen Working America - Campaign Blueprints - Introduction | PDF",1792060297,28]