OED has a reference to: 1869 Nation 25 March ... " 'unreconstructed'
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Peter
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Will Stevens <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > You could say that, yes. "Unreconstructed" in American English is a
> specific
> > reference to Southerners who opposed the policies of Reconstruction
> imposed
> > on the South by the North after our Civil War.
>
>
> Thanks! Very interesting - we live and learn. I wonder when it came into
> general use in UK English; I can't recall hearing it before about 1980.
>
> Will
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