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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.
or the first 250 years of American history, white land-owners, predominantly from the South, enslaved mil-lions of individuals of African descent. This “peculiar institution,” as it was sometimes called, defined the social, economic, and political landscape of the American South throughout this period. Slavery was so crucial to the South
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