Deep roots [electronic resource] : how slavery still shapes Southern politics

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서명/저자사항	Deep roots [electronic resource]: how slavery still shapes Southern politics / Avidit Acharya, Matthew Blackwell, Maya Sen.
개인저자	Acharya, Avidit, author. Blackwell, Matthew, author. Sen, Maya, author.
발행사항	Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, [2018].
형태사항	1 online resource (xiv, 280 pages) : illustrations, maps, charts.
총서사항	Princeton studies in political behavior
기타형태 저록	Print version: Acharya, Avidit. Deep roots. Princeton, New Jersey ; Oxford : Princeton University Press, [2018] 0691176744
ISBN	9781400889976 1400889979
서지주기	Includes bibliographical references and index.
내용주기	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
요약	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 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.
주제명(지명)	Southern States --Politics and government --1951- USA --gnd Southern States. --fast United States. --fast
일반주제명	Slavery --Political aspects --United States. POLITICAL SCIENCE / Essays. POLITICAL SCIENCE / Government / General. POLITICAL SCIENCE / Government / National. POLITICAL SCIENCE / Reference. Persistenz Politische Kultur Rassismus Sklaverei Politics and government. Slavery --Political aspects.
분류기호(DDC)	320.975
언어	영어
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