I’d be interested in reading the statistic on whether there was also an increase in international travel at the same time.

salon:

If you define patriotism as simply as thinking America is the best country in the world, the news is not good this Fourth of July weekend. That kind of patriotism has been waning in recent years. In a new report on which are the most and least patriotic states, WalletHub reports that while 38 percent of Americans said the U.S. was the best country in the world in 2011, that number fell to 28 percent in 2014. Ouch!

I’d be interested in reading the statistic on whether there was also an increase in international travel at the same time.