By: E&P Staff A report from Gallup today reveals that Americans' views of the state of moral values in the United States are more negative today than at any other time in years. Over three-quarters of Americans (77%) hold negative views about the nation's moral climate, up from 70% last year and 65% in 2002.
Only 7% of Americans hold positive views, and another 12% hold mixed views, according to the Gallup survey of 1,002 adults taken in May. More than 8 in 10 (81%) they morality is "getting worse."
This trend does not break down much by gender or age group, Gallup reports. Seventy percent of "liberals," compared with 75% of "moderates" and 82% of "conservatives" are negative about moral values in the country.
But Republicans are growing increasingly negative about moral values. "The increase in pessimism is slightly higher among Republicans (up 16 percentage points since 2002 and 2003) and independents (+18) than it is among Democrats (+6)," Gallup relates. "A similar pattern is seen by personal ideology, with the increase in pessimism a bit greater among conservatives (+16) than among liberals (+9)."
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