Black empowerment and white mobilization: the effects of the Voting Rights Act
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 pre-determined variation in exposure to the federal intervention, we document that the VRA increases both Black and wh...
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| Format: | Journal article |
| Language: | English |
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University of Chicago Press
2025
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