un reconstructed
ri adjective
1.
stubbornly maintaining earlier positions, beliefs, etc.; not adjusted to new or current situations: an unreconstructed conservative.
2.
U.S. History. (of Southern states) not accepting the conditions for reinstatement in the Union after the Civil War.
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| chiefly (US) unwilling to accept social and economic change, as exemplified by those White Southerners who refused to accept the Reconstruction after the Civil War | |
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Word Origin & History
unreconstructed
1867, "not reconciled to the outcome of the American Civil War," from un- (1) "not" + pp. of reconstruct.
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