Was there still civil war resentment in the early 1900s

Things like that have what I call half life. I think it is generational. So probably all the people of the south hated the north during the war.
Then the next generation 50% of the people hated them then the next generation 25% of the people have resentment. The next 12.5% and so on.

bro, do you even OT?

Most of the people who lived through it, either as participant or noncombatant, didn't mythologize the war. That came with the next generation. Most of the monuments that are so controversial nowadays went up between 1890-1920.

Study up on Reconstruction Period. That’s all you need to know.

I've heard of historians using the Spanish-American War (1898) as the moment when the country was really united again. Enthusiasm and support for the war was at a fever pitch, and a lot of the volunteer units raised were from the southern states. Others have said World War I. That is in general, however. I'm sure the feelings go all of the way through to today. My grandfather met my grandmother in Oregon during World War II, and after the war it took awhile for the family here in Louisiana to fully accept her as she was considered an outsider yankee (this included people in the community as well). The centennial of 1961-65 saw a lot of symbolic reconciliation, but that was also subverted by the Civil Rights movement.

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Yes. I’ve even heard stories of states incorporating the confederate flag into their state flag.

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Arizona and Viet Cong too-

Yep. Sorest losers in American history.

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It seems like the South resisted cultural, industrial and educational change during and after Reconstruction.

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Certainly there is a lot of truth to that, but on the other side, Reconstruction itself was both corrupt and brutal. Between the carpetbaggers and the freedmen politicians, all Republican and a significant majority corrupt opportunists, the South was effectively "colonized" by the North for 15 to 20 years. The genteel thing to do in the South was to refer to the war as "the late unpleasantness" well into the 20th Century.

Of course, once Democrats retook control, politically, of the South, they oversaw Jim Crow and many regressive measures to counteract Reconstruction. Vestiges of this corruption and racism persist to this very day and was a significant factor in the schizophrenic nature of the Democrat Party in the 1960s.

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many of whom got along well at memorial ceremonies later on.

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A popular anecdote about the 50th "Reunion" of the Battle of Gettysburg in 1913: The survivors organized themselves as best they could to re-enact Pickett's Charge - as the old Rebels gathered up (running from their late 60s to mid 80s) and did the Rebel Yell and started to charge, the Yanks poured down from Cemetary Ridge to embrace their former foes.

Imagine such graciousness and brotherly love today between the "warring" sides...