150 years
has done little to shift anti-black attitudes in the some parts of the
country, new analysis of census data and opinion polls shows.
In what is believed to be the first report to quantitatively
demonstrate the lasting effects of slavery on contemporary political
attitudes in the American South, a team of political scientists from the
University of Rochester examined party affiliations and views on
race-related policies such as affirmative action of more than 39,000
southern whites.
What they found: That a "slavery effect" persists among white
Southerners who currently live in the Cotton Belt where slavery and the
plantation economy thrived from the late 18th century into the 20th
century. Residents of those counties are much more likely today to
express more negative attitudes toward blacks than their fellow
Southerners who live in nearby areas that had few slaves; are more
likely to identify as Republican; and are more likely to express
opposition to policies like affirmative action, the study authors
concluded.
Take a look at their county-by-county view of where
slaves were concentrated in 1860, based on the U.S. census, and where
they say racial resentment is most likely to persist today. Story
continues below.
Examining data from nearly all of the 1,344 Southern counties in the
Cotton Belt, researchers found that a 20 percent increase in the
percentage of slaves in a county’s pre-Civil War population is
associated with a 3 percent decrease in whites who identify as Democrats today and a 2.4 percent decrease in the number of whites who support affirmative action.
“In political circles, the South’s political conservatism is often credited to 'Southern exceptionalism,'
but the data shows that such modern-day political differences primarily
rise from the historical presence of many slaves," said Matthew
Blackwell, one of the study authors, expanding on the report's
conclusion that without slavery, the South today might look fairly
similar politically to the North.
Read more of what Blackwell and his colleagues found and
their explanation for how the "slavery effect" is able to persist into
the 21st century, here.
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