How did the South lose the Civil War but manage to win the peace? Use examples.

To
say the South "won the peace" might be a bit of a stretch: the South's economy was
damaged greatly after the war and its former social customs were breaking down. While the
so-called Old South did not disappear altogether with the end of the Civil War, its heyday was
done and by the turn of the century; a New South was already taking over.

However, the South did not change its views on race. Freeing the slaves did not make
white southerners view black Americans as human beings like themselves. If anything, they
resented (and were even frightened by the idea of) black Americans having any kind of political
or social rights, claiming anarchy would ensue as a result. Though the former slaves were free,
they were often trapped into positions of servitude, whether as sharecroppers or
servants.

By the late 1870s, the infamous Jim Crow laws pushing segregation
were firmly in place, the Klu Klux Klan was on the rise, and the poll tax was established to
prevent African Americansmany of them...