One U.S. farm feeds 166 people annually in the U.S. and abroad. Cattle and calves, corn, and soybeans are the top three U.S. farm products. American Farm Bureau Foundation for Agriculture, Food and Farm Facts book (2021 edition).

The future is bright for much of rural America as small towns embrace the notion that their citizens and their cultural uniqueness are important assets. Smithsonian Institution, Crossroads: Change in Rural America.

National ownership rates vary significantly from a high of about 120.5 firearms for every 100 people in the United States to less than 1 firearm for every 100 residents in countries like Indonesia, Japan, Malawi, and several Pacific Island States.

The zero-sum, winner-take-all dynamics of U.S. elections make it nearly impossible for third parties to gain electoral traction,

Barrett, Dawson. The Defiant: Protest Movements in Post-Liberal America (NYU Press, 2018).

We have a serious problem: America is addicted to oil. George W. Bush, State of the Union Address, Jan. 31, 2006.

Four times as many women as men dropped out of the labor force in September [2020], roughly 865,000 women compared with 216,000 men. This validates predictions that the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on women—and the accompanying child care and school crises—would be severe.

Kashen, Julie, et al. "How COVID-19 Sent Women’s Workforce Progress Backward." Center for American Progress, Oct. 30, 2020.

In the United States, more women than men live in poverty. The coronavirus pandemic has put individuals and families at an increased risk of falling into poverty in the United States, as they face greater economic insecurity, due in large part to unprecedented unemployment that has disproportionately affected women.

Bleiweis, Robin, et al. "The Basic Facts About Women in Poverty." Center for American Progress, Aug. 3, 2020.

America is another name for Opportunity.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo. "American Civilization." The Complete Works (1904).

[M]ost white Americans . . . are dimly, or vividly, aware that the history they have fed themselves is mainly a lie, but they do not know how to release themselves from it, and they suffer enormously from the resulting personal incoherence. 

Baldwin, James. "The White Man's Guilt." Ebony, Aug. 1965, pp. 47-48.

Americans work more than anyone in the industrialized world. More than the English, more than the French, way more than the Germans or Norwegians. Even, recently, more than the Japanese. And Americans take less vacation, work longer days, and retire later, too.

Schabner, Dean. "Americans Work More Than Anyone." ABC  News, May 1, 2017. 

Americans as a society generally don't take vacations. While many of us would love to travel, we live in an economy where job security is rare and most of us live in fear that if we take any time off work, our job may not be waiting for us upon our return. 

Gummow, Jodie. "America is a No-Vacation Nation." Salon, Aug. 26, 2013.

By nearly every statistical measure, researchers say, America's lower class now smokes more and dies more from cigarettes than other Americans.

Wan, William. "America's New Tobacco Crisis: The Rich Stopped Smoking, The Poor Didn't," Washington Post, June 13, 2017.

America carries big-stick energy around the world, a phallic project that places female leaders in the position of trying to replicate these behaviors in order to appear tough or reject them at the risk of appearing soft. 

Cooper, Brittney. "It Matters That Elizabeth Warren Is a Woman. Why Do So Many on the Left Insist That It Doesn't?" Time, Jan. 16, 2020. 

Hating Wall Street is an American tradition that dates back even to the days when Thomas Jefferson cursed that money lover Alexander Hamilton. And for centuries, the complaints about it have largely stayed the same: It does nothing! It creates chaos! It's a parasite that sucks hardworking Americans dry!

Davidson, Adam. "What Does Wall Street Do for You?" N.Y. Times, Jan. 11, 2012.

At the same time America has become much more democratic—between the use of polls, referendums, and initiatives, the Voting Rights Act of the 1960s—people have become less capable of exercising their democratic responsibilities.

Schulte, Bret. "The Ignorant American Voter." U.S. News & World Report, June 3, 2008.

[T]he number of people going hungry has grown dramatically in the U.S., increasing to 48 million by 2012—a fivefold jump since the late 1960s, including an increase of 57 percent since the late 1990s. 

McMillan, Tracie. "The New Face of Hunger." National Geographic, July 16, 2014. 

Over the past century, Americans have become increasingly obsessed with the supposed desirability of thinness, as thinness has become both a marker for upper-class status and a reflection of beauty ideals that bring a kind of privilege.

Campos, Paul F. "Our Absurd Fear of Fat." N.Y.Times, Jan. 2, 2013. 

The crimes of the United States have been systematic, constant, vicious, remorseless, but very few people have actually talked about them. You have to hand it to America. It has exercised a quite clinical manipulation of power worldwide while masquerading as a force for universal good.

Pinter, Harold. "Art, Truth & Politics." Nobel Lecture, Nobelprize.org, Dec. 8, 2005. 

Loneliness and social isolation are growing public-health concerns for people of all ages in the United States, from young adults to seniors. Now, the latest National Poll on Healthy Aging finds that about a third of seniors are lonely. 

Ducharme, Jamie. "One in Three Seniors Is Lonely. Here's How It’s Hurting Their Health." Time, Mar. 4, 2019. 

The women of America have become heavily indoctrinated by secularism and they have changed dramatically into godless, licentious, narcissistic, angry and lewd individuals.

"The Dominance of the Godless American Woman," The Ignorant Fishermen Blog, Aug. 6, 2012.

With a July 2015 population of 8,550,405, New York is the most populous city in the United States, more than twice the size of the second largest city, Los Angeles. About 1 in every 38 people living in the United States resides in New York City.

New York City Department of Planning, "Population Facts," NYC.gov.

Porch sitting . . . is a staple of most urban areas in the United States, and helps contribute to a lively atmosphere, for those sitting and also those passing by.

"Porch Sitting," Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia.

An American today is significantly more likely to suffer clinical depression at some point in his or her life than at any other time in the past hundred years.

Kalle Lasn and Bruce Grierson, "Why is America so Depressed?" Utne Reader, September-October 2000

Women in America are drinking far more, and far more frequently, than their mothers or grandmothers did, and alcohol consumption is killing them in record numbers.

Kimberly Kindy and Dan Keating, "For Women, Heavy Drinking has Been Normalized. That's Dangerous," Washington Post, December 23, 2016

Rates of loneliness have doubled since the 1980s. Today, over 40% of adults in America report feeling lonely, and research suggests that the real number may well be higher.

Murthy, Vivek. "Work and the Loneliness Epidemic." Harvard Business Review, Sept. 2017.

The biggest problem with porn is that it ruins America's chance at great sex. It turns out that some men report having trouble performing in the bedroom after living porn-saturated lives as teenagers, and some women report feeling pressure to act like porn stars during their most intimate moments. In other words, some men's minds are so damaged that they have to experience either porn or a porn-like encounter to be sexually satisfied.

French, David. "America's Real Porn Problem." The National Review, Apr. 7, 2016.

The figure is a little hard to swallow: 1,996 pounds, or nearly one ton. This is an estimate of how much—by weight—the average American eats over the course of one year. 

Aubrey, Allison. "The Average American Ate (Literally) A Ton This Year." NPR.org, Dec. 31, 2011.

Americans . . . are forever searching for love in forms it never takes, in places it can never be. It must have something to do with the vanished frontier.

Kurt Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle (1963)

In a 2013 Pew Research Center survey, 88% of Americans cited love as a very important reason to get married, ahead of making a lifelong commitment (81%) and companionship (76%). Fewer (28%) said financial stability was a very important reason to marry.

Gretchen Livingston and Andrea Caumont, 5 Facts on Love and Marriage in America (Washington, D.C.: Pew Research Center, February 13, 2017)

Only in America could a man who brags about groping and kissing women without their consent win 53 percent of the vote among white women. Carter, Graydon. "Graydon Carter on Trump’s 'Only in America' Election." Vanity Fair, Nov. 11, 2016.

Americans remained selflessly devoted to their pets during the recession, holding their spending on pet food steady through the downturn while cutting back on the luxury of eating out.
Kurtzleben, Danielle. "Americans Spend $61 Billion on Pets Annually," U.S. News & World Report, May 22, 2013. 

More than four-in-ten Americans (43%) view more intermarriages as a change for the better in our society, while about one-in-ten (11%) say it has been a change for the worse. 

Pew Research Center. The Rise of Intermarriage Rates, Characteristics Vary by Race and Gender (Feb. 16, 2012).

One by one, the problems that America has long dismissed as "urban" have marched into the suburbs: crime, poverty, hunger, deindustrialization, drug addiction, civil unrest. The dissolution of community institutions. An aging stock of unwanted houses.

Grabar, Henry. "The Retail Apocalypse Is Suburban." Slate.com, Apr. 18, 2017.

Sixty-five percent of women reported experiencing at least one type of street harassment in their lifetimes. More than half (57%) of all women had experienced verbal harassment, and 41% of all women had experienced physically aggressive forms, including sexual touching (23%), following (20%), flashing (14%), and being forced to do something sexual (9%). 

Stop Street Harassment, Unsafe and Harassed in Public Spaces: A National Street Harassment Report (Reston, Virginia: Stop Street Harassment, Spring 2014)

A substantial number of women in the United States face economic hardship: approximately one in six adult women have family incomes below the federal poverty line. 

Institute for Women's Policy Research, "Poverty, Gender, and Public Policies," Briefing Paper, IWPR #D505, (Washington, D.C.: Institute for Women’s Policy Research, February 2016).

It contradicts all the cultural beliefs we have about the way men are and/or are supposed to be, but the dirty little secret is . . . American men are flagging in their desire for sex.

Marano, Hara Estroff. "When Men Suffer Low Sex Drive." Psychology Today, Mar. 1, 2003. 

Americans' concern about their physical appearance fuels a huge component of the U.S. economy, extending across clothing, makeup, hair care, weight control, and cosmetic surgery industries.

Justin McCarthy, Gallup, "Older Americans Feel Best About Their Physical Appearance," Gallup.com, July 10, 2014.

Excessive alcohol use is known to kill more than 140,000 people in the United States each year. CDC, Alcohol & Public Health. 

In 2009, the proportion of American women who were married dropped below 50 percent. In other words, for the first time in American history, single women (including those who were never married, widowed, divorced, or separated) outnumbered married women.

Traister, Rebecca. "The Single American Woman," New York Magazine, Feb. 22, 2016. 

Fewer than two in 10 Americans get the recommended levels of exercise, and more than a quarter of U.S. adults do not devote any time to physical activity.

Blackburn, Bradley. "New CDC Report Says Many Americans Get No Exercise." ABCNews.com, Feb. 16, 2011.

Trends in food intake over time show that, at the population level, Americans are not consuming healthy eating patterns. 

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and U.S. Department of Agriculture, 2015–2020 Dietary Guidelines for Americans, 8th ed. (Washington, D.C.: December 2015)

Hip hip hooray! Hip hip hooray! Hooray for the U. S. A.!

There's no place I like better than America! There's no place I would rather stay. So let's give a cheer to the land we love. Let the whole world hear us say:

Three cheers for America! Stand up proud and tall!

Three cheers for America. Sing out one and all!

Churchville Chili Central School, "Three Cheers for America," www.ccsd.org.