Counting the votes: South Carolina's stolen election of 1876

Journal of Interdisciplinary History

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 169-191

  King, Ronald F ^a  

^a TULANE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0242608895     PISSN: 00221953     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/002219501750442369     Document Type: Article

References (22)

1. Francis Butler Simkins and Robert Hilliard Woody, South Carolina During Reconstruction (Chapel Hill, 1932);
2. Joel Williamson, After Slavery: The Negro in South Carolina During Reconstruction, 1861-1877 (Chapel Hill, 1965);
3. Richard Zuczek, State of Rebellion: Reconstruction in South Carolina (Columbia, 1996).
4. Regarding the application of ecological inference to Reconstruction elections, see J. Morgan Kousser, "Ecological Regression and the Analysis of Past Politics," Journal of Interdisciplinary History, IV (1973), 237-262.
5. Regarding the use of outliers to indicate potential fraud or intimidation in Reconstruction elections, see Lawrence N. Powell, "Correcting for Fraud: A Quantitative Reassessment of the Mississippi Ratification Election of 1868," Journal of Southern History, LV (1989), 633-658.
6. House of Representatives, Recent Election in South Carolina, 44th Congress, 2d sess., 1877, H. Rept. 175, II, 186.
7. Zuczek, State of Rebellion, 201.
8. Zuczek, State of Rebellion, Ibid., 191;
9. Walter Edgar, South Carolina: A History (Columbia, 1998), 404;
10. Congressional Record, "Electoral Commission," 1877, V, 189, 299; H. Rept. 175, I, 6-7.
11. H. Rept. 175, II, 62; Senate, South Carolina in 1876, 44th Congress, 2d sess., 1877, Senate Miscellaneous Document 48, 84.
12. U.S. Department of the Interior, Census Office, Statistics of Population, Ninth Census of the United States (Washington D.C., 1872);
13. idem, Statistics of the Population of the United States at the Tenth Census (Washington D.C., 1883).
14. H. Rept. 175, II, 63-64, 92-94.
15. Leo A. Goodman, "Ecological Regressions and Behavior of Individuals," American Sociological Review, XVIII (1953), 663-664;
16. Leo A. Goodman, idem, "Some Alternatives to Ecological Correlation," American Journal of Sociology, LXIV (1959), 610-625.
17. Zuczek, State of Rebellion, 169.
18. Regarding illogical inferences in ecological estimation, see Christopher H. Achen and W. Phillips Shively, Cross-Level Inference (Chicago, 1995);
19. Gary King, A Solution to the Ecological Inference Problem (Princeton, 1997).
20. H. Rept. 175, II, 63.
21. King, "Hayes Wins: A Revisionist Account of the Presidential Vote in 1876," PRG Report, XXIII (2000), 20-25.
22. Zuczek, State of Rebellion, 201.