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Replication Data for: 'Restoration' and Representation: Legislative Consequences of Black Disfranchisement in the American South, 1879-1916

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Title Replication Data for: 'Restoration' and Representation: Legislative Consequences of Black Disfranchisement in the American South, 1879-1916
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/5OUHOW
 
Creator Olson, Michael
 
Publisher Harvard Dataverse
 
Description The elimination of Black voting in the U.S. South after Reconstruction is the most significant instance of democratic backsliding in American history. I use newly collected state legislative roll call data from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, consisting of more than 19,400 unique roll calls, to explore Black disfranchisement’s consequences for legislative representation. Using ideal point estimates in a panel design, I demonstrate that disfranchisement is associated with substantial changes in roll call voting. In states where competition between Democrats and Republicans structured roll call voting, disfranchisement precipitated shifts away from more-Republican roll call records. In states already dominated by Democrats before disfranchisement, disfranchisement often led to relative shifts toward the agrarian, reform wing of the Democratic Party. These results demonstrate the centrality of Black disfranchisement for the creation of the Solid South and the significant impact of Black suffrage on southern politics in the years following Reconstruction.
 
Subject Social Sciences
Representation
U.S. South
State legislatures
 
Date 2024-01-16
 
Contributor Olson, Michael
 
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