If it were a matter of polling, “the land of the free” might rather be named “the land of the family.”

Recent Gallup surveys show as much, with family as the top value overall and for almost every subgroup — the postgraduate-educated hold integrity just above it. When asked to choose their three most important values, 49% of people placed family in the list, a statistic 19 percentage points higher than for freedom, the runner-up.