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Deep Roots - How Slavery Still Shapes Southern Politics (Hardcover)
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Deep Roots - How Slavery Still Shapes Southern Politics (Hardcover)
Series: Princeton Studies in Political Behavior
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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 or changed? Deep Roots shows that the entrenched political
and racial views of contemporary white southerners are a direct
consequence of the region's slaveholding history, which continues
to shape economic, political, and social spheres. 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. Highlighting the
connection between historical institutions and contemporary
political attitudes, the authors explore the period following the
Civil War when elite whites in former bastions of slavery had
political and economic incentives to encourage the development of
anti-black laws and practices. Deep Roots shows that these forces
created a local political culture steeped in racial prejudice, and
that these viewpoints have been passed down over generations, from
parents to children and via communities, through a process called
behavioral path dependence. While legislation such as the Civil
Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act made huge strides in
increasing economic opportunity and reducing educational
disparities, southern slavery has had a profound, lasting, and
self-reinforcing influence on regional and national politics that
can still be felt today. 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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