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There are of course many Souths ; ;

but for this discussion the most important division is between those who have been reconstructed and those who haven't.

My definition of this much abused adjective is that a reconstructed rebel is one who is glad that the North won the War.

Nobody knows how many Southerners there are in this category.

I suspect that there are far more unreconstructed ones than the North likes to believe.

I never heard of a poll being taken on the question.

No doubt such a thing would be considered unpatriotic.

Prior to 1954 I imagine that a majority of Southerners would have voted against the Confederacy.

Since the Supreme Court's decision of that year this is more doubtful ; ;

and if a poll had been taken immediately following the dispatch of troops to Little Rock I believe the majority would have been for the Old South.