Deep roots how slavery still shapes Southern politics
"Despite dramatic social transformations in the United States during the last 150 years, the South has remained staunchly conservative. Southerners are more likely to support Republican candidates, gun rights, and the death penalty, and southern whites harbor higher levels of racial resentment...
| Main Authors: | Acharya, Avidit (Author), Blackwell, Matthew (Author), Sen, Maya (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Princeton, New Jersey ; Oxford :
Princeton University Press,
[2018]
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| Series: |
Princeton studies in political behavior.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- A Theory of Behavioral Path Dependence
- I. Slavery's Contemporary Effects. How Slavery Predicts White Political Attitudes Today
- An Alternative Account : Contemporary Demographics and Racial Threat
- II. The Origins of Divergence. Antebellum Politics of Slavery and Race in the South
- Emancipation as a Critical Juncture and the Timing of Divergence
- III. Mechanisms of Persistence and Decay. Persistence and the Mechanisms of Reproduction
- Interventions and Attenuation
- Conclusion : What Lessons Can We Draw from Southern Slavery?