Replication Paper for Gov 2001

Catherine Darin and Zagreb Mukerjee

To generate the tables and figures in our final PDF:

1. Clone or download this repository to a folder.
2. Create an empty /data directory.
3. Get a Census API key (https://api.census.gov/data/key_signup.html)
4. Add the key to 'main.R'
5. Run 'main.R' (after installing appropriate packages).
   • This will pull data from the Census - it may take a long time.
   • It will clean and process the data, and store it in the data folder.
6. Run replicateRegsAndExtend_short v2.R. This will create the estimates used in the paper.
   • Additionally, this program reproduces the main table from Baccini and Weymouth's analysis (Table 2). See lines 122-128 to produce a replicated table.
7. Run tablesandfigures.R
8. Run counterfactual analysis.R
9. Run Final Draft.Rmd to produce the PDF.
   • Final Draft.Rmd will make descriptive and regression tables
   • The time series of nationwide manufacturing job changes is based on an Excel file downloaded from the Census QWI Explorer (https://qwiexplorer.ces.census.gov/static/explore.html)
   • The county-level voting data comes from the MIT Election Data and Science Lab https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/VOQCHQ
   • The map figures are generated in the Rmd.

Original Paper: BACCINI, L., & WEYMOUTH, S. (2021). Gone For Good: Deindustrialization, White Voter Backlash, and US Presidential Voting. American Political Science Review, 115(2), 550-567. doi:10.1017/S0003055421000022

Dataverse: https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/7U2UIQ