Book Talk with Avidit Acharya, Deep Roots: How Slavery Still Shapes Southern Politics
Amy King Dundon-Berchtold University Club of USC 705 West 34th Street, Scriptorium, Los Angeles, CA 90089, Los Angeles, CA, USDespite 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. Read more…