Black people have lower voter registration rates in parts of the U.S. South where lynching occurred most often in the decades following the Civil War, according to forthcoming research in the American Economic Journal: Applied Economics.
In Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, North Carolina and South Carolina, Black voter registration is nearly 3% lower in counties that rank in the top quartile for lynching rates from 1882 to 1930, compared with counties in the bottom quartile, finds the paper, “Historical Lynchings and the Contemporary Voting Behavior of Blacks.”
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Conclusion: Lynching worked as a terrorism tool in Alabama and other states, reducing voter registration even now, decades after the last lynching occurred.
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