This often-forgotten historical fact can help explain how U.S. politics works

With Independence Day just around the corner, it's worth looking at some of the nuances surrounding the events when our young country declared independence from Great Britain.

On July 4, 1776, the Second Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence, which declared the independence of the United States of America from Great Britain and its king. The declaration came 15 months after the first shots of the American Revolution were fired at Lexington and Concord in Massachusetts.

Scott Rasmussen’s Number of the Day talks about this often-forgotten historical fact and why in the U.S., culture often leads and politics lags behind.