= Southern Exceptionalism in American Political Science = This isn't a theory of political science, there's just an awful history in American political science for treating the U.S. south as something 'exceptional' or 'different'. And I don't mean 'controlling for geographical region in a regression'. I mean 'observations are categorically excluded from analysis'. <> ---- == Reading Notes == * [[IdeologicalRealignmentAndActivePartisansInTheAmericanElectorate|Ideological Realignment and Active Partisans in the American Electorate]], Alan I. Abramowitz and Kyle L. Saunders, 2004 * To be fair, the authors didn't ''exclude'' data. But they did regress on an indicator variable as 'south'/'not south', erasing all of the other geographic predictors of variation. ---- CategoryRicottone