Grandpa is reading the newspaper, and he gets mad. What is he mad about?

Grandpa is upset about the changes that the government wants to make to the South.

One evening, Grampa had been reading the paper for a while. Then he swore and snapped it down on the footstool in front of him. "Hiram, boy, I don't know what this country is coming to. Now the war's over, these damn Yankees are trying to tell us how to run the South.