The Other Great Migration: Southern Whites and the New Right*

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Bazzi, Samuel; Ferrara, Andreas; Fiszbein, Martin; Pearson, Thomas; Testa, Patrick A.
• 署名单位: University of California System; University of California San Diego; National Bureau of Economic Research; Centre for Economic Policy Research - UK; Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); University of Pittsburgh; Boston University; Syracuse University; Tulane University
• 刊物名称: QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0033-5533
• DOI: 10.1093/qje/qjad014
• 发表日期: 2023
• 页码: 1577-1647
• 关键词: american; polarization; selection; churches; culture; IMPACT; tests; dust; long

摘要

This article shows how the migration of millions of Southern whites in the twentieth century shaped the cultural and political landscape across the United States. Racially and religiously conservative, Southern white migrants created new electoral possibilities for a broad-based coalition with economic conservatives. With their considerable geographic scope, these migrants hastened partisan realignment and helped catalyze and bolster a New Right movement with national influence over the long run. More than just augmenting the conservative voter base outside the South, they influenced non-Southerners by building evangelical churches, diffusing right-wing media, and mixing through intermarriage and residential integration. Tracking non-Southern households, we show that exposure to Southern white neighbors increased adoption of conservative religious norms. Overall, our findings suggest that this mass migration blurred the North-South cultural divide and reshaped the geography of conservatism in the United States.