Buying American (Up To A Point)

Americans like to see themselves as patriotic shoppers. Such loyalty has its limits, though, to judge from the results of an Associated Press survey conducted by Ipsos-Public Affairs. Asked what they’d do in choosing between a U.S.-made product and a similar foreign-made item “for the same price,” a landslide 93 percent of adults said they’d buy American. But what if the foreign-made item had a lower price tag? In that case, the buy-American vote tumbled to 54 percent.