Op-Ed: Why former slave states became the foundation for American gun culture (via latimesopinion)
that the higher the rate of enslavement in a county in 1860 — i.e., where nascent Black political power was more threatening to post-Civil War white elites — the higher the rate of gun ownership today. These are also the counties where everyday feelings of danger among citizens best predict rates of gun ownership.
Even when we include other possible determinants of gun ownership — such as crime rates, police spending, population density, unemployment rates, income, racial segregation, education levels, state gun laws and political voting patterns — we still found that historical rates of slavery predict gun ownership. It was about as good a predictor as the percentage of the county voting for Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election.
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