# Why are Republicans generally more patriotic than Democrats? **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [July 19, 2017, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-republicans-generally-more-patriotic-than-democrats/791627 "2017-07-19T05:03:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 143
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2017, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-republicans-generally-more-patriotic-than-democrats/791627/143 "2017-07-19T19:33:38Z")
> [@Ann\_Hedonia](#): > > But I’m done with reasoned responses to Ditka, this is just another trolling thread like the 4th of July one. I remember a lot of Dems gave very well thought out responses about what their country meant for them and the response was just sort of, “Oh, you are all a bunch of overthinking navel gazers but you still hate America.” Can you point me to the post(s) where he said that? I’m not disputing that it was said; I’m genuinely curious. **HD** has started a number of potentially argumentative threads lately where he seemed (at least to me) to be trying to avoid poisoning the well. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-republicans-generally-more-patriotic-than-democrats/791627)._