I would say Lincoln’s name and situation ended phenomenally well. As well as any war could. Probably if Rs had more guts and stamped out the KKK there would be no DemoKKKrat party today.
I don’t know. 30 years of reconstruction is sort of glossed over in our history books. My family wasn’t Southern so we didn’t experience it but it wouldn’t surprise me (doesn’t surprise me) that there are so many who still remember the North extracting their pound of flesh. In fact, it occurred to me that these monuments they want torn down may well have been the North’s “apology” for Reconstruction’s crimes. Notice they were all erected AFTER Reconstruction.