Comment #3

konane — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 03:32:57 GMT

Would speculate legal immigrants who become US citizens know more about our history than many US born citizens.

Comment #2

GASMETERGUY — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 00:36:02 GMT

<br />So what's the big deal

Comment #1

truecritic — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 22:49:05 GMT

I am really glad the figure is that LOW! Who says USA is not smart?

Original Blog Entry: 26% of U.S. don't know who we declared independence from

truesee — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 20:09:20 GMT

26% of U.S. don't know who we declared independence from: Marist poll

Aliyah Shahid

DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER

Saturday, July 3rd 2010, 1:02 PM

JOEL PAGE/APRoughly one-fourth of people in this country don t know that the U.S. declared its independence from Great Britain, according to a recent poll.

At least according to a new Marist poll, which says 26% of people in this country don t know that the U.S. declared its independence from Great Britain.

That includes 20% who were unsure and 6% who thought the U.S. separated from another nation.

So what country do people think the U.S. achieved its independence from?

Among the countries mentioned were France, China, Japan, Mexico and Spain.

The poll surveyed 1,004 Americans in June and had 3% margin of error.

But hey, even our founding fathers made mistakes.

Preservation scientists recently discovered Thomas Jefferson had originally referred to the American public as subjects, then changed it to read citizens before the ink dried.

Oops.

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/2010/07/03/2010-07-03_26_of_us_dont_know_who_we_declared_indepence_from_marist_poll.html#ixzz0seSXtCfw

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