Sundown Towns and Racial Exclusion: The Southern White Diaspora and the "Great Retreat"

Samuel Bazzi, Andreas Ferrara, Martin Fiszbein, Thomas Pearson and Patrick Testa

AEA Papers and Proceedings, 2022, vol. 112, 234-38

Abstract: This paper studies the rise of sundown towns—places where Blacks and other minorities were excluded after dark—outside the South after 1890. We provide a new dataset on the timing of sundown town establishment using full count census records. Using a shift-share instrumental variables approach, we show that the presence of Southern Whites is causally related to the appearance of sundown towns, with lynchings and the establishment of KKK chapters as plausible mechanisms for racial exclusion.

JEL-codes: J15 N31 N32 N41 N42 N91 N92 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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