Sentence:  But apart from racial problems , the old unreconstructed South - to use the moderate words favored by Mr. Thomas Griffith - finds itself unsympathetic to most of what is different about the <WSD>civilization</WSD> of the North . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  a society in an advanced state of social development (e.g., with complex legal and political and religious organizations)