Economic class, not racial anger, fails to explain Southern Democratic defection.

Evidence

In Appendix Table A. we explore whether richer Southern whites were differentially leaving the Democratic party. While richer respondents indeed tend to defect from the Democrats (perhaps not surprising, given its redistributive policies), this tendency is often insignificant and moreover is no more marked than in the North. — Ilyana Kuziemko and Ebonya Washington, Why Did the Democrats Lose the South?…, 940

Categorization

• XREF: Negative result falsifying the economic-development alternative mechanism — tells the reader that redistribution/class economics cannot substitute for status threat as the mobilization driver. — connects to: Southern economic development and party liberalization did not cause the exodus — Ilyana Kuziemko and Ebonya Washington, Why Did the Democrats Lose the South?…, 978; Economic development cannot explain Southern Democratic dealignment — Ilyana Kuziemko and Ebonya Washington, Why Did the Democrats Lose the South?…, 798; Historians still dispute whether race or economics drove white Southern exit from the Democrats. — Ilyana Kuziemko and Ebonya Washington, Why Did the Democrats Lose the South?…, 49 (+5 more)
• QUESTION: Worth checking appendix tables to see which model specs push the income coefficient insignificant — a key caveat for how strongly this negative result should count.

Broader Connections

• Income and urbanization controls barely shrink the Southern Democratic-dealignment effect #corroborates (0.90) — Ilyana Kuziemko and Ebonya Washington, Why Did the Democrats Lose the South?…, 1130
• Economic development cannot explain Southern Democratic dealignment #corroborates (0.85) — Ilyana Kuziemko and Ebonya Washington, Why Did the Democrats Lose the South?…, 798
• Southern economic catch-up could independently explain realignment away from Democrats. #contradicts (0.85) — Ilyana Kuziemko and Ebonya Washington, Why Did the Democrats Lose the South?…, 43
• Racially conservative whites’ defection drove the Southern realignment #contradicts (0.85)
• Historians still dispute whether race or economics drove white Southern exit from the Democrats. #responds-to (0.80) — Ilyana Kuziemko and Ebonya Washington, Why Did the Democrats Lose the South?…, 49