The South's Political Reality After the Civil War

The condition of the south has been, at every point, dominated by a aristocracy. It's like y she's against a leninis dictatorship of the proletariat. The failure of reconstruction is part of that tapestry that got us to where we are and all the shitty stuff. But what didwe what was the political reality in the south after the civil war? And what was after reconstruction? Was it democracy? Would she call it that? And if it wasn't, what was it? If it was a dictatorship, what did that dictatorship lead to? Like, these people hate what america is now, right? Ye?