I guess it boils down to the fact that many White Southerners did not feel loyalty to or like the Slave owning landed class much and were not about to fight a guerilla war to restore back a rich man's ex-slave or plantation. They were willing to fight for States Rights and after the war and Reconstruction they got just that so the animosity to the Union died down and the thirst of the next Southern generation to revenge the loss went with it. It does seem to make sense that "terrorist" groups in the South were formed during Reconstruction and were repudiated and died down as Reconstruction was lifted. That sound about right?
Interesting thoughts......may be right there.
Yes ...that is about right.
Also most Southern military leadership led by Robert E Lee urged surrender and no taking the war to guerrila levels. there were a few that desired continuing but it never gained any footing.
Reconstruction did indeed produce actions whose merits are debated to this day...LOL..boy howdy are they, but after the Union occupation ended and rights were restored to white Southerners...that ended too at least as a quasi-insurgency movement.
Birth of a Nation days was actually more of a midwest rather than southern movement.