As we approach another Fourth of July, we continue to hear how Americans may be more politically divided than at any time in recent history. Both presidential candidates – one of them recently convicted of multiple felonies in New York – expressed the stakes of the November election in extremely stark terms.
No matter how divided we are, people in red states and blue states will still celebrate the same national independence day on the 4th of July. This is the day, nearly 248 years ago, that our union was formed, a union that has been tested by slavery, a civil war and, most recently, an attempt to overturn a presidential election. For all of our divisions, we celebrate that one union on the 4th of July.
Now, we'd like to hear from you: As we celebrate another Independence Day amid political turmoil, what will you celebrate on the 4th of July? What makes you think of our country as a union, celebrated this time of year by Americans of almost all political stripes?
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