ted the slogan to cover a host of complex and sometimes contradictory constituency alliances. In other words, whatever is held to be uniformly true about the former Confederacy has to be understood with a great deal of qualification. Republicans (formerly known as radicals, who despised the Confederacy and slavery) were arrayed against Democrats (not unsympathetic to the goals of the Confederacy) from the North who engaged in industrialization projects with middle-class Southerners. Their chief alliance with old-line planters was built around contempt for freed Negroes.
The emergence of multiple and different constituencies out of the ashes of the Confederacy did not prevent "propagandists," as Woodward repeatedly calls them, from constructing a myth of the Old South and the New Order, or New South, built around romantic images of social organization. Reconstruction and the Industrial Revolution more generally gave to the North an industrial boom period. Some northerners wanted to transfer economic and industrial change to the south. But after 1877, the South as a whole was not rec
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