As America prepares to celebrate its 233rd birthday this weekend, 82% of American adults say that if given the choice of living anywhere in the world, they would still choose to live in the United States.

A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey shows that just 11% say they would not choose to live in America.

Those results are nearly identical to those found last year at this time.

Younger Americans are slightly less enthusiastic about living in America than their elders.

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Most Americans (54%) also believe the United States is a nation of liberty and justice for all, as the Pledge of Allegiance states, up three points from last year. Forty percent (40%) do not believe this is true.

Slightly more men than women believe America is a nation of liberty and justice for all. About the same percentage of African-Americans (55%) and whites (54%) agree on the question.

Though most adults would still choose America over anywhere else, 56% say the country has changed for the worse since the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. Nearly one-in-four (24%) say the nation has changed for the better, while just 11% say nothing has changed. Those results also have changed little from last year’s survey.

However, 47% say the United States is safer today than it was before 9/11, although 35% disagree.

Other recent polling finds that 37% of voters believe the country is moving in the right direction, while 58% say it is heading down the wrong track.

Fifty percent (50%) of Americans believe hate is growing in America following the murders of a doctor who performed late-term abortions, a military recruiter and a guard at the U.S. Holocaust Museum. Thirty-five percent (35%) disagree.

Only 31% now believe the United States will be the most powerful nation in the world by the end of the 21st century.

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