What best analyzes the impact of the words “revered and maligned” in paragraph 5 of this text.

In 1869, a bold new idea was born. It would have been inconceivable a few years earlier. Upending everything about the balance between state and federal power, this idea strove to remake American democracy. It proved so vexing that we are still sorting out its implications.

Explanation:

b. brooks wrote about the same type of neighborhood in which she grew up.