The Confederate Diaspora

We thank Ran Abramitzky, Desmond Ang, Sascha O. Becker, Leah Boustan, Shari Eli, Vicky Fouka, Gordon Hanson, Saumitra Jha, Trevon Logan, Ted Miguel, Nathan Nunn, Elias Papaioannou, Allison Shertzer, Marco Tabellini, and participants at the following seminars and conferences for feedback: CalTech, Harvard University, the London School of Economics, Michigan State University, Osaka University, Pantheon-Sorbonne University, Simon Fraser University, Stanford University, Tulane University, University of British Columbia, UC San Diego, University of Pittsburgh, University of Warwick, the 2023 Deep Roots Conference at Brown University, the 2022 ASREC Conference, the 2024 ASSA Meetings, the 2023 Baltic Connections Conference, the 2023 Race, Equality and Public Policy Conference at Toronto University, the 2023 Montana State University Applied Micro Conference, and the 2022 SEA Meetings. We thank Faiz Essa, Katarina Fedorov, and Fahar Laqa for excellent research assistance. We are grateful to Jessica Crowe and Candacy Taylor for sharing their data and expertise with us. We acknowledge with gratitude the Russell Sage Foundation and Boston University Initiative on Cities for generous financial support. Any errors are our own. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

• June 8, 2023
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