I just read an article and associated research that said that less than 20% of Americans owned a passport!

The highest percentages of passport holders were in large coastal cities on both coasts.

Certainly makes America seems like a very insular country.

Of course there are many comparisons with others, and reasons for this statistic..... location of the country with the rest of the world, the length of a trip to travel outside the country, the expense of travelling internationally, the short holiday periods Americans have annually vs. other countries, the vast size of the country, the built in cultural diversity of the country, etc.

Europeans travel internationally more because many countries are a train ride away and thus have a higher percentage of passport holders.

It is interesting also to see that in America, the cities with the higher passport numbers tend to be in States that usually vote Democratic, with the recent exception of Florida... and the areas of the countries more inland, with less passport holders, are painted solidly red.

Is there any correlation in the way people think, accept diversity, understand, vote, and the number of passport holders in the USA?

Wonder if we did a survey by country what percentages of GWW members had passports by country.

I have one from USA. Where are you and do you have a passport? Do you travel outside your country?