If you're asking whether people who post on The High Road forums like 1911's, then you are going to get an overwhelmingly positive response, but it may not be the most accurate indication to the real world popularity of 1911's.
In the real world, the Glock factory is producing 4000 handguns per day and still can't keep up with demand. Some of the 1911 manufacturers out there would be lucky to produce 4000 pistols per month. I'm not saying they wouldn't sell them, they would, but not in the numbers that the 9mm and .40 polymers are selling at.
Yes, it's a tried and test design, yes it was used in wartime and yes, it's American made (well some of them are). But most people don't purchase a handgun based on patriotism alone - in fact, I know some very patriotic Americans with German cars and Japanese televisions, heck some of them even own AKs.
Firearms go in and out of fashion, I remember during the 80's when Lethal Weapon and Die Hard featured the Beretta 92F, everybody wanted one and the 1911 was considered very old fashioned. But that's a different discussion.
The truth is, if you take a whipper snapper to a gun range, hand him two pistols, a mil-spec no frills 1911 or a brand new XDm, then chances are, he will want the XDm. The overall sales figures for polymers back this up I'm afraid.