03656nam a22003137a 4500003000800000005001700008006001900025007000300044008004100047020001800088020001500106040001300121041000800134050002800142100002000170245010900190260006400299300006400363490004400427504006700471505064900538520190901187650005703096650005603153651005103209700002303260700001403283830004503297BJBSDDR20260731143407.0a|||||r|||| 00| 0 ta251126s2020    njua||||r|||| 00| 0 eng d  a9780691203720  a0691203725  bengcDLC  aeng14a002 F 216.2bA176d 20201 aAcharya, Avidit10aDeep roots :bhow slavery still shapes Southern politics /cAvidit Acharya, Matthew Blackwell, Maya Sen.  aPrinceton, New Jersey :bPrinceton University Press,c2020.  axiv, 280 pages :billustrations (black and white) ; c24 cm1 aPrinceton studies in political behavior  aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 257-271) and index.0 aList of Tables
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Acknowledgments

1. Introduction
2. A Theory of Behavioral Path Dependence
I. Slavery’s Contemporary Effects
3. How Slavery Predicts White Political Attitudes Today
4. An Alternative Account: Contemporary Demographics and Racial Threat
II. The Origins of Divergence
5. Antebellum Politics of Slavery and Race in the South
6. Emancipation as a Critical Juncture and the Timing of Divergence
III. Mechanisms of Persistence and Decay
7. Persistence and the Mechanisms of Reproduction
8. Interventions and Attenuation
9. Conclusion: What Lessons Can We Draw from Southern Slavery?

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Index  aDespite 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 4aEsclavitud xAspectos políticos zEstados del Sur  4aEsclavitud xAspectos políticos zEstados Unidos  4aEstados del Sur xPolítica y gobiernoy1951-1 aBlackwell, Matthew1 aSen, Maya 0aPrinceton studies in political behavior.