正如Avidit Acharya、马修·布莱克威尔和玛雅·森在其近著深深扎根：奴隶制如何仍然决定着南方政治一书中所表明的那样，南方目前的政治文化恰恰起源于奴隶制的遗存以及内战结束后的种族隔离。
As Avidit Acharya, Matthew Blackwell, and Maya Sen powerfully argue in their recent book Deep Roots: How Slavery Still Shapes Southern Politics, it is the legacy of slavery and post-Civil War segregation that gave rise to the South’s current political culture.