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Our country never grew out of slavery and has always held a secret "clan" of people desperate to return to those times.
One reason is we never properly followed-up after the civil war. We gave the landowners and organizers of the confederacy clemency and let them keep owning land and let them keep their wealth and in many cases, nothing really changed in the south other than the absence of a lot of young men who died.
In a more reasonable world, we would have hung them all and started a massive re-education campaign across the southern states. I don't even believe in capital punishment, but I know in the context of history, certain horrors have to be embraced if you don't want to keep fighting the same war over and over and over.
Reconstruction worked, until the Compromise of 1876
https://www.studentsofhistory.com/compromise=1877