Why are southerners still hung up on the Civil War?
No disrespect intended.
Radical Reconstruction caused more ill will than the war. If Lincoln's plan for reconstruction had been carried out, things would be different today. Almost all Southerners understood that Booth's assassination of Lincoln was going to lead to great suffering in the South. There would not have been a KKK if not for Radical Reconstruction. The Klan was first organized to deal with widows and orphans. Since ex-confederates could not meet, the robes were originally used to hide identities. Sadly, the KKK quickly devolved into a hate group.
