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White and class supremacy never died.

As demonstrated by the rebound from the 12 years of post Civil War Reconstruction, to Jim Crow laws of racial discrimination far into the next century.

And in the North, non-slavery did not mean equality before the law in dozens of community matters, including marriage, education and employment.

And Lincoln was elected by the more populous Northetn states, did not appear on the ballot of Southetn states.

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The decline of racism was radically reversed by Woodrow Wilson, who was an open white supremacist and hosted the KKK at the White House for example. He was perhaps one of the worst presidents in American history.

https://www.history.com/news/woodrow-wilson-racial-segregati...

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Not clear that there was a racism decline, post-Reconstruction, on a collective national basis.

Millions of people and the cultural biases they carried and refreshed, with the following generations, never went away.