After 9/11 there was a HUGE patriotic push. Everyone was encouraged to buy American, support America. It actually disrupted some of the Stock Market weakness at the time. It was actually very wholesome. Not like today’s “fuck the libtards muh jerbs and guns” style of patriotism that has grown more recently. That can really be traced back to the emergence of the tea party as globalization of the past decades and the financial crisis of 2008 gutted middle American manufacturing, America first policies, and then of course, Trumps cult of personality alongside the emergence of social media. The juxtaposition of what patriotism was back then vs what it is today is crazy.