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Racial Diversity and Racial Policy Preferences: The Great Migration and Civil Rights

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  • Alvaro Calderon
  • Vasiliki Fouka
  • Marco Tabellini

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Between 1940 and 1970, more than 4 million African Americans moved from the South to the North of the US, during the Second Great Migration. This same period witnessed the struggle and eventual success of the civil rights movement in ending institutionalized racial discrimination. This article shows that the Great Migration and support for civil rights are causally linked. Predicting Black inflows with a shift-share instrument, we find that the Great Migration raised support for the Democratic Party, increased Congress members’ propensity to promote civil rights legislation, and encouraged pro-civil rights activism outside the US South. We provide different pieces of evidence that support for civil rights was not confined to the Black electorate but was also shared by segments of the white population.

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  • Alvaro Calderon & Vasiliki Fouka & Marco Tabellini, 2023. "Racial Diversity and Racial Policy Preferences: The Great Migration and Civil Rights," The Review of Economic Studies, Review of Economic Studies Ltd, vol. 90(1), pages 165-200.
    • Handle: RePEc:oup:restud:v:90:y:2023:i:1:p:165-200.
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    1. Dan Anderberg & Gordon Dahl & Christina Felfe & Helmut Rainer & Thomas Siedler, 2024. "Diversity and Discrimination in the Classroom," RF Berlin - CReAM Discussion Paper Series 2405, Rockwool Foundation Berlin (RF Berlin) - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM).
    2. Bernini, Andrea & Facchini, Giovanni & Tabellini, Marco & Testa, Cecilia, 2023. "Black Empowerment and White Mobilization: The Effects of the Voting Rights Act," CEPR Discussion Papers 18238, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
    3. Daniel J. Smith & Macy Scheck, 2023. "Examining the public interest rationale for regulating whiskey with the pure food and drugs act," Public Choice, Springer, vol. 196(1), pages 85-122, July.
    4. Lin, Pengsheng & Pan, Yinghao & Wang, Yuan & Hu, Longhai, 2024. "Reshaping unfairness perceptions: Evidence from China's Hukou reform," China Economic Review, Elsevier, vol. 83(C).
    5. Beach, Brian & Hanlon, W. Walker, 2023. "Historical newspaper data: A researcher’s guide," Explorations in Economic History, Elsevier, vol. 90(C).

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