Deep Roots : : How Slavery Still Shapes Southern Politics /

Deep Roots : : How Slavery Still Shapes Southern Politics / / Avidit Acharya, Matthew Blackwell, Maya Sen.

The lasting effects of slavery on contemporary political attitudes in the American SouthDespite 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...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DTL Humanities 2020
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Acharya, Avidit,
Blackwell, Matthew,
Sen, Maya,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2018]
©2018
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
Series:Princeton Studies in Political Behavior ; 6
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Physical Description:1 online resource (296 p.) :; 46 b/w illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Tables
  • Figures
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • A Theory of Behavioral Path Dependence
  • Slavery's contemporary effects
  • How slavery predicts white political attitudes today
  • An alternative account: Contemporary Demographics and Racial Threat
  • The origins of divergence
  • Antebellum politics of slavery and race in the South
  • Emancipation as a critical juncture and the timing of divergence
  • Mechanisms of persistence and decay
  • Persistence and the mechanisms of reproduction
  • Interventions and attenuation
  • Conclusion: What lessons can we draw from Southern slavery?
  • Appendix
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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