adj. Unreconciled to social or cultural change; particularly with respect to the Reconstruction after the American Civil War.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
Not reconstructed; specifically, in United States politics, not yet reorganized as a State of the Union: applied to seceded States after the civil war; also, loosely, to citizens of the South not reconciled to the results of that war.
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adj. adhering to an attitude or position widely held to be outmoded
Word Usage
"It’s perhaps more than anything else this realization – that the mobilization of the unreconstructed is a permanent fixture in American politics – that separates, not just the netroots, but the liberal bloggers in general, from Chait and his more high-minded comrades."