O'Neill was "an absolute, unrepentant, unreconstructed New Deal Democrat," Farrell wrote. He was the "epitome of an unreconstructed Southerner" and published articles defending slavery and secession. According to his close associates and friends, Hussain described himself as an "unreconstructed Marxist". Whisman described Jeffreys's views as "unreconstructed radical feminism". The Republican regime faced the determined opposition of the "unreconstructed" white Democrats in the population. This is also the technique in other unreconstructed rooms.