Bernini, Andrea; Facchini, Giovanni; Tabellini, Marco; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
The 1965 Voting Rights Act (VRA) paved the road to Black empowerment. How did southern whites respond? Leveraging newly digitized data on county-level voter registration rates by race between 1956 and 1980, and exploiting pre-determined variation in exposure to the federal intervention, we...