A Democratic black voting bloc slowed Southern whites’ natural dealignment from the Democratic Party.

Evidence

Rights, by introducing a strongly Democratic black voting bloc to the South, on net slowed the natural process of dealignment). They show via cross tabulations that, relative to the 1950s, in more recent decades it is economically conservative Southern whites who identify as Republican (they generally do not compare this trend to that among non-Southern whites). — Ilyana Kuziemko and Ebonya Washington, Why Did the Democrats Lose the South?…, 186

Categorization

• DEFINE: Clarifies one side of the old debate: voting rights as an encounter between an emerging black bloc and the natural process of dealignment among whites.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Ilyana Kuziemko and Ebonya Washington, Why Did the Democrats Lose the South?…, 186
• XREF: connects to: Racially conservative whites’ defection drove the Southern realignment; Racially conservative white Southerners abandoned Democratic identification after 1964. — Ilyana Kuziemko and Ebonya Washington, Why Did the Democrats Lose the South?…, 1327; Civil-rights-era policy shifts drove southern whites into the Republican Party — Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Jesus and John Wayne: How White…, 105 (+5 more)

Broader Connections

• Racially conservative white Southerners abandoned Democratic identification after 1964. #contradicts (0.85) — Ilyana Kuziemko and Ebonya Washington, Why Did the Democrats Lose the South?…, 1327
• Civil-rights-era policy shifts drove southern whites into the Republican Party #contradicts (0.80) — Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Jesus and John Wayne, 105
• Economic development cannot explain Southern Democratic dealignment #corroborates (0.75) — Ilyana Kuziemko and Ebonya Washington, Why Did the Democrats Lose the South?…, 798
• Southern Democratic senators scored extremely high on authoritarianism. #corroborates (0.72)