{"id":57283,"date":"2013-10-02T12:00:12","date_gmt":"2013-10-02T17:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=57283"},"modified":"2014-06-09T21:06:04","modified_gmt":"2014-06-10T02:06:04","slug":"150-years-of-racism-attitudes-in-the-american-south","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2013\/10\/02\/150-years-of-racism-attitudes-in-the-american-south\/","title":{"rendered":"150 Years of Racism: Attitudes in the American South"},"content":{"rendered":"

The partial U.S. map below shows the proportion of the population that was identified as enslaved in the 1860 census. \u00a0County by county, it reveals where the economy was most dominated by slavery.<\/p>\n

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A new paper<\/a> by\u00a0Avidit Acharya, Matthew Blackwell, and Maya Sen has discovered that the proportion of enslaved residents in 1860 — 153 years ago — predicts race-related beliefs today. \u00a0 As the percent of the population in a county accounted for by the enslaved increases, there is a decreased likelihood that contemporary white residents will identify as a Democrat and support affirmative action, and an increased chance that they will express negative beliefs about black people.<\/p>\n

Avidit and colleagues don’t stop there. \u00a0They try to figure out why. \u00a0They consider a range of possibilities, including contemporary demographics and the possibility of “racial threat” (the idea that high numbers of black people make whites uneasy), urban-rural differences, the destruction and disintegration caused by the Civil War, and more. \u00a0Controlling for all these things, the authors conclude that the results are still partly explained by a simple phenomenon: parents teaching their children. \u00a0The bias of Southern whites during slavery has been passed down intergenerationally.<\/p>\n

Cross-posted at Pacific Standard<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\nLisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em>American Hookup<\/a>, a book about college sexual culture; a textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em>Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a>.\u00a0You can follow her on Twitter<\/a> and Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The partial U.S. map below shows the proportion of the population that was identified as enslaved in the 1860 census. \u00a0County by county, it reveals where the economy was most dominated by slavery. A new paper by\u00a0Avidit Acharya, Matthew Blackwell, and Maya Sen has discovered that the proportion of enslaved residents in 1860 — 153 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":57425,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[223,253,272,8118,85,283,693,285,1760,20063,1757,341,37,309],"class_list":["post-57283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-childrenyouth","tag-history","tag-marriagefamily","tag-organizationsinstitutions","tag-politics","tag-prejudicediscrimination","tag-public-opinion","tag-raceethnicity","tag-raceethnicity-blacksafricans","tag-raceethnicity-prejudicediscrimination","tag-raceethnicity-whiteseuropeans","tag-ruralurban","tag-social-psychology","tag-warmilitary"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2013\/10\/Screenshot_1.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57283"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62938,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57283\/revisions\/62938"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}