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I have not heard of any Confederate State praising their reconstruction government; and most, if nor all, former Confederate States still believe in States rights and Individual freedoms.
Thankfully, a lot of people in the Southern states today believe in conservative small government, but a state-enforced system of Jim Crow was the exact opposite of limited government. Michael Zak’s “Back to Basics for the Republican Party” has a good concise account of the Reconstruction age. A lot of liberal writers try to twist the facts of that to their own ends, but Mr Zak’s account connects the Republicans of that age to limited government free-market principles of today.