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The Night Rider Tobacco War during the period 1904-1909
in Kentucky and Tennessee provides a model case study of rebellion/
revolution/ social banditry. The use of platoon- and company-size unit
operations, guerilla warfare, boycotts and sabotage by the Dark Tobacco
Growers Association against the Duke Tobacco Trust followed the
trajectory of a revolution, from inception through success in
overturning the power relations in the traditional small tobacco farm
country. Success in gaining the aims of the movement was followed by a
melting away of the footsoldiers despite strenuous attempts by the
leadership of the Association to continue activities after victory in
the original aims of the group—destruction of the economic and
political stranglehold the Duke interests had achieved. As the factual
background of the events in the Dark Patch are known and—in most
instances—well documented, it is possible to use NetLogo programming to
test the validity of causational theories of revolution. NetLogo is a
computer modeling environment in which agents are programmed to carry
out specific, simple rules of behavior and allowed to interact—a
“virtual laboratory” in which the behavioral rules can be altered to
test different hypotheses and the result permitted to emerge based
solely upon the operation of those rules. For each posited causative
factor (Goldstone’s triad of inflation, heightened elite competition
and strain on governmental finances, for example) the original position
and dominant motivation(s) can be set up and the situation allowed to
play itself out to see how closely the predictions of the theory mirror
the historic record. The further a theory’s predictions deviate from
reality, the greater the doubt cast upon its validity. |
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Name: The Midwest Political Science Association
URL: http://www.indiana.edu/~mpsa/
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MLA Citation:
| Newman, Christopher. "“Everything They Ever Wanted”: ANetLogo Case Study of a Model of Rebellion in the Tobacco Dark Patch ofTennessee and Kentucky" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the The Midwest Political Science Association, Palmer House Hilton, Chicago, Illinois, Apr 15, 2004 <Not Available>. 2009-05-26 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p82320_index.html> |
APA Citation:
| Newman, C. D. , 2004-04-15 "“Everything They Ever Wanted”: ANetLogo Case Study of a Model of Rebellion in the Tobacco Dark Patch ofTennessee and Kentucky" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the The Midwest Political Science Association, Palmer House Hilton, Chicago, Illinois Online <.PDF>. 2009-05-26 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p82320_index.html |
Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Review Method: Peer Reviewed
Abstract: The Night Rider Tobacco War during the period 1904-1909
in Kentucky and Tennessee provides a model case study of rebellion/
revolution/ social banditry. The use of platoon- and company-size unit
operations, guerilla warfare, boycotts and sabotage by the Dark Tobacco
Growers Association against the Duke Tobacco Trust followed the
trajectory of a revolution, from inception through success in
overturning the power relations in the traditional small tobacco farm
country. Success in gaining the aims of the movement was followed by a
melting away of the footsoldiers despite strenuous attempts by the
leadership of the Association to continue activities after victory in
the original aims of the group—destruction of the economic and
political stranglehold the Duke interests had achieved. As the factual
background of the events in the Dark Patch are known and—in most
instances—well documented, it is possible to use NetLogo programming to
test the validity of causational theories of revolution. NetLogo is a
computer modeling environment in which agents are programmed to carry
out specific, simple rules of behavior and allowed to interact—a
“virtual laboratory” in which the behavioral rules can be altered to
test different hypotheses and the result permitted to emerge based
solely upon the operation of those rules. For each posited causative
factor (Goldstone’s triad of inflation, heightened elite competition
and strain on governmental finances, for example) the original position
and dominant motivation(s) can be set up and the situation allowed to
play itself out to see how closely the predictions of the theory mirror
the historic record. The further a theory’s predictions deviate from
reality, the greater the doubt cast upon its validity. |
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| Christopher Newman Midwest Political Science Association 2004 Elgin Community College Dark Tobacco Patch War—Revolution Analysis A COMPLEX SYSTEMS MODELING ANALYSIS OF THE DARK FIRED TOBACCO DISTRICT PLANTERS’ ASSOCIATION WAR The longest and most violent sustained civil conflict in the United States during the century between the end of the Civil War and the racial conflicts of the mid 1960s was the Dark Patch Tobacco War in portions of Kentucky and Tennessee which lasted from 1904 to 1909.1 The Night |
| of Latin American Guerrilla Movements” in Revolutions: Theoretical Comparative and Historical Studies 3rd ed. Jack A. Goldstone ed. Belmont CA: Thomson/ Wadsworth Learning 2003. 28 Christopher Newman Midwest Political Science Association 2004 Elgin Community College Dark Tobacco Patch War—Revolution Analysis Wilensky Uri 1999. NetLogo. http://ccl.northwestern.edu/netlogo/. Center for Connected Learning and Computer-Based Modeling Northwestern University. Evanston IL. Wilensky Uri (1998). NetLogo Virus model. http://ccl.northwestern.edu/netlogo/models/Virus. Center for Connected Learning and Computer-Based Modeling Northwestern University Evanston IL. 29 |
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