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In the immediate months and years after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, surveys revealed a surge in patriotism among Americans of all stripes. But that trend has steadily decreased in the 20 years since, and a clear partisan gap has emerged, with far fewer Democrats and independents identifying themselves as proudly patriotic than Republicans.

As patriotism and wrapping oneself in the American flag has come to be more identified with being a right-leaning conservative or Republican, media coverage of "patriotism" has taken a negative turn as well.

"Weve seen on multiple occasions major news outlets share their feelings and opinions in making patriotic symbols and demonstrations a divisive political issue," Fox News contributor Joe Concha said. "The New YorkTimesjust this summer had a writer named Mara Gaywho declared that she found it disturbing there were so manyflagsshe had to witness on lawns and trucks. Disturbing."

"The same New YorkTimesthat not too long ago askedif the Star Spangled Banner and National Anthem were racist. The same New YorkTimesthat is defending Olympian Gwen Berry - who turned away from the National Anthem in calling the playing of it a set up.' This is not the paper of record. Its an extension of the DNC,'" he added, likening the paper to the party that tends to trend lower in American pride than its Republican counterparts.

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Gwendolyn Berry, left, looks away as DeAnna Price and Brooke Andersen stand for the national anthem after the finals of the women's hammer throw at the U.S. Olympic Track and Field Trials Saturday, June 26, 2021, in Eugene, Ore. Price won, Andersen was second and Berry finished third. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel) (AP)

Last year, a record low of 63 percent of Americans reported being "extremely" or "very proud" to be Americans. There was a slight uptick to 69 percent when asked the question by Gallup this year, but still far from the 92 percent who reported that answer in 2002.

For Democrats, the answer's often been tied to who is president. Trends showed less pride in being Americans while George W. Bush and Donald Trump were president, and more pride when Barack Obama and Joe Biden were in office. Republican patriotism has stayed relatively high over the past 20 years.

"One year after the Sept. 11 attacks, 93 percent of Democrats and 99 percent of Republicans said they were either "extremely" or "very" proud to be Americans," data site FiveThirtyEight reported in July 2018. "The GOP number stayed comfortably in the 90s for the duration of George W. Bushs presidency, but by January 2007, amid an unpopular war in Iraq that sparked no small amount of liberal dissent, the share of Democrats who were 'extremely' or 'very' proud to be Americans had shrunk to 74 percent."

March 23, 2011: U.S. troops stand guard outside a local journalists' union office in Basra, Iraq. (AP)

Political commentator Drew Holden said that U.S. involvement in the Middle East and differences over the controversial Patriot Act, which provided the U.S. government with sweeping anti-terrorism surveillance powers after 9/11, contributed to the polarization over patriotism and national pride.

"I think that definitelyplayed into this polarization. Post 9/11, patriotism became associated, by the media and both parties, with support for foreign wars in Afghanistan and eventually and to a lesser degree Iraq," he said. "I think that poisoned the well in a lot of ways. As soon as you've gotten a political cause tied to patriotism in the public square, it cheapens the term, and allows people to play fast and loose with the definition."

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"Patriotism is the latest victim of America's politicization and polarization crisis. But should it surpriseus that patriotism wanes when outlets like CNN associatethe word with January 6th rioters and white supremacists?" Holden added. "By normalizing these outlandish perspectives, the media has helped create a narrative that uncontroversial views and displays of patriotism are adjacent to something evil, which is going to have a downstream impact on American culture more broadly."

From the George W. Bush administration that marked the 2000s to the Tea Party movement in 2010 to Trump's nationalistic politics taking control of the GOP since 2015, patriotism has been increasingly viewed as more of a conservative attribute than a nonpartisan one. And liberal media coverage has at times reflected that tension.

Dec. 5, 2015: Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally in Davenport, Iowa. (AP)

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CNN's John Avlon asked in a 2013 opinion piece how the word "patriot" had become a dirty word. He ultimately placed blame on conservative activist groups, such as those associated with the Tea Party movement, referring to themselves as "the real patriots," who, he said, were seeking to defend a traditional way of life from liberals, Democrats, other demographics and then-President Barack Obama.

A 2020 piece by Slate Magazine called for liberalism to be made "great again" by liberals around the world taking back patriotism from "right-wing authoritarians," who it argued had claimed it as their own.

The trend of discomfort with American flags and signs of patriotism continued in 2021 at major outlets. Sports writer William Rhoden said on "CBS This Morning" last month that he had enjoyed covering the Olympics during his long career but felt differently now, pointing to how many "American flags" he saw at the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.

TOPSHOT - Trump supporters clash with police and security forces as they push barricades to storm the US Capitol in Washington D.C on January 6, 2021. - Demonstrators breeched security and entered the Capitol as Congress debated the 2020 presidential election Electoral Vote Certification. (Photo by ROBERTO SCHMIDT / AFP) (Photo by ROBERTO SCHMIDT/AFP via Getty Images)

"I love the opening ceremonies, march of countries. Then I realized, you know, man, particularly after these last four years, I had it wrong. Nationalism is not good. We've seen the rise of White nationalism. Nationalism is not good," he said. "And also, this whole idea I keep thinking back on the Capitol riots, and I saw a lot of, you know, U.S. flags."

"So now when I see the flag and the flag raised, what what America am I living in? You know, are the ones that don't think, you know, we should be here?" he went on, referring to him and other African Americans.

For liberal outlets like the New York Times, the American flag can be perceived as a hijacked symbol of problematic nationalism or avid Trump support.

In a piece published in July, author Sarah Maslin Nir quoted individuals who found the flag has become so politicized that they now think twice about flying it outside their homes or businesses. Some people, for instance, have been hiding their patriotic pride in Old Glory after Trump's supporters, and conservatives in general, "have embraced the flag so fervently."

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"What was once a unifying symbol there is a star on it for each state, after all is now alienating to some, its stripes now fault lines between people who kneel while The Star-Spangled Banner plays and those for whom not pledging allegiance is an affront," Nir wrote.

Left-wing editorial board member Mara Gay went viral a month before that when she told MSNBC she was "disturbed" by the sight of "dozens of American flags" during a trip to Long Island, New York.

"I was on Long Island this weekend visiting a really dear friend, and I was really disturbed. I saw, you know, dozens and dozens of pickup trucks with explicatives [sic] against Joe Biden on the back of them, Trump flags, and in some cases just dozens of American flags, which is also just disturbing Essentially the message was clear. This is my country. This is not your country. I own this," Gay said.

In 2016, amid the run up to Trump's successful bid for the presidency, resistance to patriotism extended beyond media and into the world of sports as NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick began kneeling during the playing of the National Anthem prior to some pre-season games.

"I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses Black people and people of color," Kaepernick said following one of the games. "To me, this is bigger than football and it would be selfish on my part to look the other way. There are bodies in the street and people getting paid leave and getting away with murder."

FILE - In this Sept. 12, 2016, file photo, San Francisco 49ers safety Eric Reid (35) and quarterback Colin Kaepernick (7) kneel during the national anthem before an NFL football game against the Los Angeles Rams in Santa Clara, Calif. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez, File)

Some members of the media got behind Kaepernick throughout the controversy that spanned multiple years and began to justify his narrative behind not standing in honor of the National Anthem.

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ESPN's The Undefeated quickly jumped to support Kaepernick, claiming his protest was just as American as the flag, and that he, like all Black people, had "a right and responsibility" to fight against his history of oppression.

ESPN "SportsCenter" anchor Jemele Hill, a staunch defender of Kaepernick, was suspended the year following the start of his protests for violating the network's social media policy when she responded on Twitter to Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones, who said that players who disrespected the flag wouldn't play for his team. In her tweet, she called on fans who disagreed with Jones to boycott the team's advertisers.

Jemele Hill said she deserved ESPN's suspension after her controversial tweets against President Trump and the NFL controversy. (AP)

The Guardian published an opinion piece two years following the start of Kaepernick's protest, after the controversial player was no longer on an NFL team, with writer Mychal Denzel Smith claiming that although the protest might be "unpatriotic," it was "just fine."

"His protest does not need to be recast as patriotic, as patriotism is not a higher virtue than justice," Smith wrote.

Some argue the seemingly growing divide over patriotism primarily aligns with the political divide between Republicans and Democrats, and the latter moving further away from the outward display of pride in being American.

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"The Democrats are embarrassed by the United States. Their coastal elitism cant bear the thought of American exceptionalism. I never thought I would see loving your country as such a controversial idea," Fox News contributor and former Republican congressman Jason Chaffetz said.

"As the Democrats run away from the American Flag and a patriotic belief in our country, they do so as the minority. Its as if they are campaigning for the Republicans. Ive never seen wrapping yourself in the red, white, and blue as bad politics, but I think it shows how radical the Democrats have become recently," he added.

UNITED STATES - JUNE 15: Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, conducts a news conference in the Capitol to unveil the Geolocation Privacy and Surveillance (GPS) Act, that will provide "clear rules for the use of electronically-obtained location data, also known as geolocation data." Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., teamed up with Chaffetz to draft the bill.(Photo By Tom Williams/Roll Call)

Former White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany, who is no stranger to the media's negative approach to patriotism and flaming of partisan politics, saw patriotism and patriotic symbols as things that actually unite Americans and predicted that attempts to divide on the issue wouldn't ultimately succeed.

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"The radical left has taken symbols of national unity and turned them into divisive flash points," she said. "The left continues to attack the very symbols that unite us as a country. The good news, however, is that the American people are much wiser than the small number of far-leftists that seek to divide us."

White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany speaks during a briefing at the White House in Washington, Friday, Nov. 20, 2020. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

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Iowa Democrats need to revamp their election strategy.

If the Iowa Democratic Party is going to be competitive again, it must adopt an electoral strategy that combines popular progressive policy positions with a robust voter outreach program.

One of the big lessons Iowa politicos learned over the past decade was that Iowa Democrats are really bad at winning state elections. Despite the fact that Iowa is still technically considered a swing state, the Democratic Party has not held any sort of power since the Tea party wave election in 2010 primarily because Democrats have not made an effort to connect with Iowa voters.

In the 2020 election, Iowa Republicans mobilized their election corps. GOP volunteers reached out to voters by door knocking while political operatives were planning meet and greets for Republican candidates. Democrats, on the other hand, did none of those things. Instead, citing the pandemic, they chose to expand their online presence.

The decision not to hold any type of in-person events ended up costing Democrats dearly as most voters who tend to be considered middle aged or older did not bother to learn about the Democratic Party platform. This essentially allowed Republicans to characterize the Democratic Party as socialists looking to restrict the freedoms of Iowans. Democrats cannot repeat the mistakes of 2020.

They must build a robust apparatus of operatives and volunteers who will meet with any prospective voter and advertise Democrats ideas.

In addition, Iowa, like most upper-Midwest states, has become redder as manufacturing jobs have left the state. The GOP underformer President Donald Trump has manipulated the racial resentments of these blue-collar workers to win elections. As a result, Democrats have had a harder time winning elections as they have lost their base.

This makes door knocking and canvassing even more important.

Next, Iowa Democrats need to organize their platform around the median voter theorem. Derived from economics, the median voter theorem contends that if you were to line up voters on a left to right axis, the voter that will decide an election will be the one that holds the most middle-of-the-ground views. In other words, if Democrats and Republicans want to win an election, they must capture moderate voters. Now, that does not mean Democrats should adopt so-called centrist policies.

Rather, they must campaign on a few progressive policies that are popular with moderate Iowa voters. Some of these popular policies could include raising the minimum wage and providing high speed internet to rural populations.

A strategy based on the median voter theorem has been met with some pushback from left-leaning pundits. They are often quick to point out that former President Donald Trump, who styled himself as a right-wing populist, won the 2016 presidential election by not catering to the so-called median voterexcept he did.

Even if it was inadvertent, voters saw Trumps campaign proposals such as promising not to cut social security benefits as more moderate than his opponent at the time, Hillary Clinton, thus vindicating the median voter theorem. Furthermore, these pundits have also attacked public polling the main method operatives use for finding popular issues as inaccurate. Instead, they point to the polling in the 2020 election as being off.

Its much more nuanced than that.

After conducting a post-mortem of the 2020 election, the election guru Nate Silver argued that while 2020 was a mediocre year for polling, 80 percent of polls were able to correctly pick the winner of the election. Finally, the premiere polling institution in America, the Pew Research Center, has argued that pollsters should take steps to improve their polling methodology to get more representative samples of American voters.

The current electoral strategy used by Iowa Democrats has left the party in shambles. However, if the party can do a better job of reaching out to voters and remember the guiding principles of the median voter theorem, they can build back better.

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With Disney Genie launching sometime soon, FastPass+ signs are being replaced with Lightning Lane signs throughout Walt Disney World. Several Magic Kingdom attractions received the signage earlier this month, and now weve spotted Lightning Lanes at Dumbo the Flying Elephant, Mad Tea Party, and Mickeys PhilharMagic.

The flat signs are being replaced first, as three-dimensional signs will take more work to completely replace.

Lightning Lane is printed on the red ribbon piece of the queue.

Heres what the similar stand-by entrance sign looks like on the other side.

At Mickeys PhilharMagic, another flat sign has been updated.

Lightning Lane is printed in medieval-like red and gold lettering.

In addition to its new Lightning Lane sign, Mad Tea Party is having its roof repainted.

Though the stand-by entrance has three-dimensional lettering, the Lightning Lane lettering is just flat for now.

Its possible three-dimensional lettering will be added later to match the stand-by sign.

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Good morning, and welcome to the Essential California newsletter. Its Tuesday, Sept. 14. Im Justin Ray.

Yesterday I told you 5 things every voter should know about the California recall election. We also have a California Politics newsletter (which you should be subscribed to for times like these).

Today, I want to talk about unfounded voter fraud claims that threaten the recall election and may have an enduring legacy on the states democratic process.

Election fraud campaigns

We have noted before that nearly half a dozen California groups are running election fraud campaigns. The state Republican Party has launched its own fraud program, as have leaders of several conservative political action committees. They are competing for the attention and donations of a common conservative base. But one group stands out: poll observer logs from four counties Orange, San Diego, Fresno and San Luis Obispo show the vote watchers hail almost exclusively from the Election Integrity Project.

On first pass, the organization appears to be dedicated to the noble cause of ensuring our elections are fair, but the reality is quite different. The organization, which grew out of the tea party movement, says it has trained some 4,000 observers to police the recall. The actual number will probably be much smaller, though some registrars are concerned the groups claims will discourage people from voting and thus undermine confidence in the election process. (The organizations officials did not respond to requests to comment for our original story.)

It should be noted that in November, volunteers from the Election Integrity Project caused disruptions at the polls, sometimes intimidating voters, according to election logs, emails and records filed in federal court.

Signature challenges

At ballot processing centers, volunteer observers keep a close eye on those approving the signatures on unopened ballots and sometimes challenge the validity of the signatures, a practice that is banned in some counties and has been declared illegal by at least one judge.

Secretary of state guidelines for the recall election tell counties that observers are prohibited from challenging voters, but the document is silent on whether that includes the validation of a voters signature. A Times investigation has raised questions about the legality of this practice.

Orange County Registrar Neal Kelley told The Times that he has seen observers decide which ballots to challenge based on voter surnames and other demographics that allowed them to guess a voters leanings.

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Inland Empire parents of 5 die of COVID-19 weeks apart. Davy Macias, a 37-year-old registered nurse from Yucaipa, succumbed to COVID-19 on Aug. 26, eight days after delivering a baby girl she never got to hold because she was on a ventilator. Her husband Daniel, 39, also was stricken by COVID-19 and spent his last days in a hospital intensive care unit. He died Thursday, leaving behind the couples five children, ages 7 and younger. Los Angeles Times

Hollywood says its antiracism push is not a fad. Is the industry keeping its promises? When massive protests erupted nationwide in the summer of 2020 after the murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer, the entertainment industry was initially slow to respond. But after a stinging rebuke from CNN anchor Don Lemon, major entertainment companies sprung into action, promising big changes. Has Hollywood made good on its word? Heres what entertainment companies have and have not done. Los Angeles Times

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A British actress has been missing since last week. Tanya Fear, who has been living in Los Angeles for the last two months, was reported missing by her family Thursday. Friends and fans have been raising awareness of Fears disappearance to get more information across social media by using the hashtag, #FindTanyaFear. Fear appeared in a 2018 episode of the sci-fi drama Doctor Who, according to the BBC. She was also seen in the movie Kick-Ass 2" and had recently started doing stand-up comedy (Update: She has been found). BBC

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Larry Elder and the danger of the model minority candidate. Times columnist Frank Shyong discusses what he sees as the gubernatorial front-runners position in the GOP. Fielding a model minority candidate will probably become a common electoral strategy for the largely white Republican Party as it attempts to maintain control of a rapidly diversifying nation, Shyong says. He then discusses the origins of the term model minority, explaining that journalists and academics began applying the term to Asian Americans in the 1960s to explain why Japanese and Chinese Americans were attaining financial success. Los Angeles Times

Protesters disrupt celebration of L.A. City Halls new civil rights department. Demonstrators upset over Los Angeles City Halls homelessness and policing policies disrupted the celebration of a new city department Monday, drowning out the remarks of Mayor Eric Garcetti and others. More than a dozen protesters chanted, yelled and used a bullhorn to shout expletives at officials who had gathered for the opening of the Civil and Human Rights and Equity Departments new office across from City Hall. Garcetti left shortly after demonstrators began yelling and other participants finished the news event inside, away from the protesters. Los Angeles Times

Judge makes ruling over Scott Peterson testimony in Kristin Smart case. The hearing in the disappearance and murder of Kristin Smart has taken many odd turns; one of the strangest was the mention of Scott Peterson, who is serving a life sentence after being found guilty in the 2002 murders of his wife Laci Peterson and their unborn child. Defense attorneys attempted to put him up as a suspect in the case, but Superior Court Judge Craig van Rooyen ruled any testimony related to Peterson is inadmissible. Recordnet

U.S. Capitol Police say they arrested a California man who had multiple knives in his truck, which had a swastika and other white supremacist symbols painted on it, near the Democratic National Committee headquarters in Washington. Officers took note of a Dodge Dakota pickup about midnight Sunday. When they pulled over the vehicle, they noticed the weapons. The driver, identified as 44-year-old Donald Craighead of Oceanside, was arrested. Los Angeles Times

Wildfires rage in Sequoia National Park, threatening groves of giant trees and forcing closures. A pair of lightning-sparked fires that took hold in rugged terrain in the Sequoia and Kings Canyon national parks exploded over the weekend, forcing evacuations and park closures, while firefighters made gains on the massive Dixie and Caldor fires burning to the north. The Paradise and Colony fires in the national parks, at 1,037 acres with no containment, sent smoke billowing over the popular tourist destination and forced the closure of much of Sequoia National Park while the Kings Canyon side remained open, according to Mark Ruggiero, a public information officer for the national parks. Los Angeles Times

Renting a car remains a pain. On a trip to visit Disneyland with his children, John Jimenez of San Jose reserved a compact car from Dollar Rent a Car at Los Angeles International Airport. What he got when he landed was a headache. Due to a vehicle shortage, the car rental agency offered him a van that he said reeked of cigarettes and marijuana. A global microchip shortage that has cut production of new cars continues to deal a heavy blow to car rental companies, but most of the pain is being felt by travelers who find themselves waiting in long lines, paying nearly double the rates of earlier this year, being denied the vehicle they reserved or ending up with a car with lots of wear and tear. Los Angeles Times

USC fires football coach Clay Helton. Sports columnist Bill Plaschke wrote a brutal column after USCs loss to Stanford on Saturday night calling for USC coach Clay Heltons removal. Well, that happened. In a message posted to Twitter on Monday, USC Athletic Director Mike Bohn announced his decision to make a change in the leadership of our football program and thanked Helton for his time as coach. Los Angeles Times

USC coach Clay Helton talks to his players.

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Todays California memory is from Wendy Meier:

We were a boating family, going from Evinrude and Mercury outboards to beautiful Chris Crafts. Everybody waterskiied. By the 1960s we settled in at Lake Tulloch, a reservoir near Sonora. Every summer weekend was spent at the lake. Besides skiing and generally running free, we hung out at the marinas. Mitchs, as we called it, had pinball, nickel candy bars and a juke box. Surf songs were big. The local employer was an asbestos mine, above the lake. At the end of the day, workers came in with white dust on them. I still wonder how they fared.

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EDENTON The Edenton Tea Party Chapter of the National Society of Daughters of the Revolution will celebrate Constitution Week with an event Saturday at the Historic 1767 Chowan County Courthouse in Edenton.

The program, which gets underway at 10 a.m., will include a welcome by Edenton Tea Party Chapter Regent Sandra Sperry, the posting of the colors by the John A. Holmes JROTC, the Pledge of Allegiance by chapter member Virginia Wood, and the singing of the national anthem by Sidney Lassiter.

Prayers will be given by the Rev. Junior White of Ballards Bridge Baptist Church, and patriotic music will be offered by members of Kimberley Dunlows music class from the Chowan Middle School.

Annette Wright, the Edenton Tea Party Chapters 2020 Community Service Award Winner, will be the guest speaker. Wright will provide biographical information about North Carolinas three signers of the U.S. Constitution: William Blount, Richard Dobbs Spaight and Hugh Williamson. Her focus, however, will be Williamson, who was a resident of Edenton at the time.

The Junior White family will provide additional patriotic music, which will be followed by Edenton Tea Party Chapter members Deborah Spence who will talk about the history of the Hugh Williamson Monument.

The Rev. White will provide the benediction, which will be followed by Johnny Cashs rendition of The Ragged Old Flag. Music by the Junior White family will precede the JROTC retiring of the colors. There will then be a wreath laying ceremony at the Hugh Williamson Monument.

This year marks the 66th anniversary of Constitution Week. NSDAR Past President General Gertrude S. Carraway, who is also an Honorary NC State Regent, was responsible for the annual designation of Sept. 17-23 as Constitution Week. The DAR made its own resolution for Constitution Week, which was adopted April 21, 1955.

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