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Reconstruction historiography (view source)
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==Southern whites: popular white==
==Southern whites: popular white==
In popular literature two novels by Thomas Dixon—''The Clansman'' and ''The Leopard's Spots: A Romance of the White Man's Burden — 1865–1900''—romanticized white resistance to Northern/black coercion, hailing vigilante action by the [[Ku Klux Klan]], which had been founded by members of the [[Democrat Party]] as that party's terrorist wing.<ref>[http://russp.us/racism.htm A Short History of Democrats, Republicans, and Racism]</ref> Other authors romanticized the benevolence of slavery and the happy world of the antebellum plantation. These sentiments were expressed on the screen in [[D.W. Griffith]]'s anti-Republican 1915 movie ''[[The Birth of a Nation]]''.
In popular literature two novels by Thomas Dixon—''The Clansman'' and ''The Leopard's Spots: A Romance of the White Man's Burden — 1865–1900''—romanticized white resistance to Northern/black coercion, hailing [[vigilante]] action by the [[Ku Klux Klan]], which had been founded by members of the [[Democrat Party]] as that party's terrorist wing.<ref>[http://russp.us/racism.htm A Short History of Democrats, Republicans, and Racism]</ref> Other authors romanticized the benevolence of slavery and the happy world of the antebellum plantation. These sentiments were expressed on the screen in [[D.W. Griffith]]'s anti-Republican 1915 movie ''[[The Birth of a Nation]]''.
==Dunning School==
==Dunning School==