Why did the Democrats lose the South? Bringing new data to an old debate
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Keywords
U.S.; Northern America; Democracy; Political; Race; Racial; Voter;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D72 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior
- H23 - Public Economics - - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue - - - Externalities; Redistributive Effects; Environmental Taxes and Subsidies
- J15 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of Minorities, Races, Indigenous Peoples, and Immigrants; Non-labor Discrimination
- N92 - Economic History - - Regional and Urban History - - - U.S.; Canada: 1913-
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