Deep Roots : How Slavery Still Shapes Southern Politics Paperback / softback
by Avidit Acharya, Matthew Blackwell, Maya Sen
Part of the Princeton Studies in Political Behavior series
Paperback / softback
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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 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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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:296 pages, 46 b/w illus.
- Publisher:Princeton University Press
- Publication Date:10/03/2020
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- ISBN:9780691203720
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:296 pages, 46 b/w illus.
- Publisher:Princeton University Press
- Publication Date:10/03/2020
- Category:
- ISBN:9780691203720
