THE DIVIDE OVER AMERICA’S FUTURE: 1950 OR 2050?

THE DIVIDE OVER

AMERICA¡¯S FUTURE:

1950 OR 2050?

Findings from the 2016 American Values Survey

THE DIVIDE OVER

AMERICA¡¯S FUTURE:

1950 OR 2050?

Findings from the 2016 American Values Survey

Robert P. Jones, Daniel Cox, Betsy Cooper, and Rachel Lienesch

Acknowledgments

The 2016 American Values Survey was made possible by generous funding from The Ford Foundation and The Nathan Cummings Foundation. Additionally, the authors would like to thank

Joanna Piacenza for her communications and editorial support; Harmeet Kamboj and Jessica

Walthall for their editorial assistance; and Tim Duffy for his able assistance with graphics and report design and layout. We would also like to thank Kivvit for providing communications outreach

for the survey release.

In addition, PRRI would like to thank our colleagues from The Brookings Institution for their

input on the research process and for hosting the public release of the survey. Brookings¡¯ Senior

Fellows E.J. Dionne, Jr. and William A. Galston provided feedback on the survey questionnaire

and Adam Waters, Elizabeth Sablich, Elizabeth McElvein, and Anna Goodbaum provided logistical

assistance and communications services for the release event.

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Contents

7

Executive Summary

12 The State of the Nation

20 The 2016 Election

27 Progress, Nostalgia, and Cultural Change

32 Trade and Foreign Policy

34 Immigration and Protectionist Policies

37 Raising the Minimum Wage, Free

College Tuition, and Taxation

39 Views of the Criminal Justice System

42 Appendix 1: Survey Methodology

44 Appendix 2: About PRRI and the Authors

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