Today, or yesterday?

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"...Most white Southerners thought of themselves as resisting tyranny. They considered governments elected primarily by black voters to be unrepresentative regimes, sustained by outside power. They viewed the higher taxes imposed to provide increased public services to be little better than looting white citizens for the benefit of black one and the corrupt government officials they elected."

Anyone care to hazard a guess as to which post-election period Michael Benedict was describing?