Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1867, "not reconciled to the outcome of the American Civil War," from un- (1) "not" + past participle of reconstruct (v.). See Reconstruction.
Wiktionary
a. 1 Not reconstructed. 2 Unreconciled to social or cultural change; particularly with respect to the Reconstruction after the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American%20Civil%20War.
WordNet
adj. adhering to an attitude or position widely held to be outmoded; "peasants are still unreconstructed small capitalists at heart"; "there are probably more unreconstructed Southerners than one would like to admit" [ant: reconstructed]
Usage examples of "unreconstructed".
He was an unreconstructed True Believer, but he was not an austere sort of man and he genuinely loved people, particularly children.
No one maintains, I gather, that unreconstructed Stalinists had doctored the magnetic tapes, or that the former Soviets were engaged in engineering activities of unprecedented and hitherto unrevealed scale on the surface of Venus - where every spacecraft to land has been fried in an hour or two.
Wilson was a full-blooded Englishman and unreconstructed Unbeliever who somehow contrived to make Hamid-Jones feel as if the Arab half of his ancestry was worth less than the English half.
He was an unreconstructed fascist and not the least bit ashamed of it.
Austin, a commercial flight carrying the Texas Juneteenth Rifles has been detained on the ground by armed and unreconstructed Texas Rangers.
But there would be a few unreconstructed Ossa among them, the first contingents of what was already being called the Underground Railroad.
The Pima and Papago bands of the Sonora Desert were the only nations both the Na-dene, or Apache, and ferocious Yaqui, or Unreconstructed Aztec, had long since learned to leave the hell alone.
The family is the scandal of the neighborhood, the parents unreconstructed hippies who drive a loud (visually and aurally) truck, refuse to mow their "natural" lawn under threat of numerous court injunctions, and parade about in unfashionable rags and long ratted hair (both mother and father).
Not that there was anything actively poisonous or even especially deleterious about the pills and potions put out by the Ashville Pharmacal factorythe Food and Drug Administration would have seen to that, even without the help of Mr Ashville's unreconstructed consciencebut neither would they do anyone much good, other than psychologically.
To the unreconstructed citizens of Ondine, it was the proper response, but for him well, he'd seen the happy expressions, the togetherness, the touching, the feeling for one another that was obvious in the village.
Now call me an unreconstructed philistine, but it seems to me - and I offer this observation in a spirit of friendship - that when a nation's industrial prowess has plunged so low that it is reliant on Korean firms for its future economic security, then perhaps it is time to re-address one's educational priorities and maybe give a little thought to what's going to put some food on the table in about 2010.