Reconstruction and Nationalism

"Everyone knows that Reconstruction, in the 1860s and 1870s, recast the political, legal, and economic infrastructure of the South. And everyone knows, or should know, that the project of Reconstruction, given a hiatus for some eighty years, began again in the 1960s. That today there exists a program of systematic cultural subversion in the South is not news to any self-aware Southerner."