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Deep Roots: How Slavery Still Shapes Southern Politics

Deep Roots: How Slavery Still Shapes Southern Politics

Acharya, Avidit
Blackwell, Matthew
Sen, Maya

Paperback

Series: Princeton Studies in Political Behavior, Book 6

General Racism & Ethnic StudiesSocial MovementsUnited States Politics

ISBN10: 0691203725
ISBN13: 9780691203720
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: Mar 10 2020
Pages: 296
Weight: 0.95
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.20
Language: English

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

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 than whites in other parts of the country. Why haven't these sentiments evolved? Deep Roots shows that the entrenched views of white southerners are a direct consequence of the region's slaveholding history. Today, southern whites who live in areas once reliant on slavery--compared to areas that were not--are more racially hostile and less amenable to policies that could promote black progress. A groundbreaking look at the ways institutions of the past continue to sway attitudes of the present, Deep Roots demonstrates how social beliefs persist long after the formal policies that created those beliefs have been eradicated.

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