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The Political Legacy of American Slavery
The Political Legacy of American SlaveryAvidit Acharya, Stanford UniversityMatthew Blackwell, Harvard UniversityMaya Sen, Harvard UniversityWe show that contemporary differences in Political attitudes across counties in the American South in part trace theirorigins to Slavery s prevalence more than 150 years ago. Whites who currently live in Southern counties that had highshares of slaves in 1860 are more likely to identify as a Republican, oppose affirmative action, and express racial re-sentment and colder feelings toward blacks. We show that these results cannot be explained by existing theories, in-cluding the theory of contemporary racial threat.
ricans whose ancestors were targeted by the slave trade have higher levels of mistrust today than other Africans. Within the United States, O’Connell (2012) demonstrates that areas of the American South that had high numbers of slaves have greater economic inequality between blacks and whites today. Similarly, Lagerlöf (2005) and Nunn (2008)
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