The red-coated French?

Here’s a sad commentary about the modern United States.

Some 26% of our fellow Americans don’t know that the U.S. won its independence from Great Britain, according to a poll by the Marist Institute for Public Opinion.

Some of them believe we won our freedom from France, China or Mexico. Wonder what they think they were celebrating on July 4?

And these people vote and choose our leaders. Then again, let’s hope they’re part of the big group that doesn’t.