Views on the Nation & What Makes Us American as the US Approaches 250 | National Public Opinion Poll - April 7, 2026

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• Highlights

Ahead of the US’ 250^th Anniversary, New UMass Poll Gauges Views on the Nation and ‘What Makes Us American’

Although three-quarters of respondents say we have more things in common than divide us, partisan gaps still exist on issues such as sexism and Christian nationalism

• Press Releases

The press release for this poll can be downloaded HERE and at the UMass Amherst Office of News & Media Relations.

• Poll Contact

Tatishe Nteta ([email protected])

• Methods

Field Dates: March 20 –25, 2026  |  Sample: 1,000 Respondents  |  Margin of Error: 3.5%

This University of Massachusetts Amherst Poll was conducted via YouGov. YouGov interviewed 1072 US adult residents. The respondents were then matched down to a sample of 1000 to produce the final dataset. The respondents were matched to a sampling frame on gender, age, race, and education. The sampling frame was constructed by stratified sampling from the full 2023 American Community Survey (ACS) 1-year sample with selection within strata by weighted sampling with replacements (using the person weights on the public use file). The matched cases were weighted to the sampling frame using propensity scores. The matched cases and the frame were combined and a logistic regression was estimated for inclusion in the frame. The propensity score function included age, gender, race/ethnicity, years of education, region, and home ownership. The propensity scores were grouped into deciles of the estimated propensity score in the frame and post-stratified according to these deciles. The weights were then ranked on 2024 presidential vote choice and a four-way stratification of gender, age (4 categories), race (4-categories), and education (4-categories), to produce the final weight.