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Deep Roots: How Slavery Still Shapes Southern Politics (Princeton Studies in Political Behavior, 6) Paperback – March 10, 2020

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The lasting effects of slavery on contemporary political attitudes in the American South

Despite 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? Deep Roots shows that the entrenched views of white southerners are a direct consequence of the region's slaveholding history. 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. 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.

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"One of the most mind-blowing books I’ve encountered recently."―Chris Hayes

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"As Avidit Acharya, Matthew Blackwell, and Maya Sen powerfully argue . . . it is the legacy of slavery and post-Civil War segregation that gave rise to the South’s current political culture."―Jeffrey D. Sachs, Project Syndicate

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Princeton University Press; Reprint edition (March 10, 2020)
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Sammi Schullo
5.0 out of 5 stars Very important read
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5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic social science
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Fantastic mix of political science and economic history to understand how the past shapes the present.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Significant factor for contemporary racism
Reviewed in the United States on December 4, 2018
A very well documented explanation of how slavery shapes southern politics. However I think a significant explanation for contemporary racism was excluded and not even mentioned. The war on drugs has continued to demonize African Americans for the last 50 years.

The purpose of the 1971 “War on Drugs” was to marginalize blacks as revealed in the memoir by Nixon’s Chief of Staff, John Erlichman.
“The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies the anti-war left and black people. You understand what I’m saying? We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black – but getting the public to associate hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities, we could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about drugs, of course we did.”

Shifting the responsibility of drug abuse from criminal justice to public health would alleviate racial inequality and a host of other social problems. This premise in no way justifies drug use but this problem could be better addressed by public health. The criminal justice approach has exacerbated the animosity between law enforcement and minority populations. Enforcing drug laws justifies law enforcement’s excessive traffic stops and arbitrary hassling of minorities in their neighborhoods. The primarily minority prison population has increased from 300,000 in 1970 to 2,200,000 in 2010.

As was demonstrated in the 1920’s, prohibition not only failed to decrease alcohol use but created an underground economy supported by the mafia. The prohibition of drugs has not decreased drug use, but strengthened gangs, increased crime and consequently the prison population. Most crime is conducted between gangs involved with territorial drug sales.

The $40 billion spent by federal/state governments for drug related arrests and incarceration, not to mention the estimated $70 billion tax revenue from drug sales could be shifted to addressing education, poverty and mental health. Drug addiction and related health problems are better addressed by public health than incarceration.
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Susan L Gensinger
5.0 out of 5 stars How slavery and it’s aftermath affect modern day behavior in the South
Reviewed in the United States on May 3, 2019
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Very interesting book. Love how things tie out. A bit technical
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Lee A. Underwood
5.0 out of 5 stars Well argued view on a difficult subject
Reviewed in the United States on August 28, 2018
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Topic often ignored or omitted from discussions of the past in the South
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5.0 out of 5 stars Must read book.
Reviewed in the United States on January 23, 2019
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Fantastic book. Explains so much about the South.
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DM
5.0 out of 5 stars An Incredible Work About the Issue That Separates Americans
Reviewed in the United States on February 5, 2019
This is an incredible study by the authors and they deserve kudos. The authors write about and explain the persistence of conservative racism in the South. They explain the persistence of racism by use of behavioral path dependence to explain why southern whites harbor higher levels of racial resentment than other parts of the country. They show that the strong levels of racial resentment are connected to the slave holding history of the South. Using post-Civil War history, they show that not only individual beliefs regarding racism shaped this resentment but the adoption by government institutions of segregation reinforced the racial resentment of southerners. This is a book everyone should read. It addresses the issue that taints all of our politics and helps explain why we cannot get out political and cultural houses in order till we all admit racism is alive and well.
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Fred F.
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent
Reviewed in the United States on May 17, 2021
I was born and reared in the south, yet I sadly view this book as accurately depicting evils in our culture.
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