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Do Protest Tactics Matter?
Evidence from the 1960s Black Insurgency
How do the subordinate few persuade the dominant many? This article links nonviolent and vio-lent tactics employed by socially marginal protesters to conditional feelings of empathy or threat inthe voting majority. I test this argument by estimating effects of black-led protest movements in the1960s on white attitudes and voting behavior. In the 1964, 1968 and 1972 presidential elections, Ifind proximity to black-led nonviolent protests was associated with significant increases in county-level Democratic vote-share whereas proximity to black-led violent protests caused a substantivelyimportant decline. In counterfactual scenarios of Martin Luther King Jr. not being assassinatedand fewer violent protests occurring before the 1968 election, the Democratic presidential nomi-nee, Hubert Humphrey, would likely have beaten the Republican nominee, Richard Nixon. Thisresearch has important implications for existing theories of social movements, political violenceand voting behavior.
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