The passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act (VRA) 🗳️, which secured voting rights for black people in the South 🌍, led to a counter-mobilization by Southern Whites. The VRA led to a surge in white voter registrations in counties where black voters were competitive. ✊🏾
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Journal of Political Economy
Black Empowerment and White Mobilization: The Effects of the Voting Rights Act | Journal of Political Economy
How did Southern whites respond to the 1965 Voting Rights Act (VRA)? Leveraging newly digitized data on county-level voter registration by race between 1956 and 1980 and exploiting predetermined variation in exposure to the federal intervention, we document…
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