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What were southerns who supported republican governments called in the south?
In United States history, scalawags were southern whites who supported Reconstruction ... (called carpetbaggers) to take control of their state and local governments. ... In the South, Black Freedmen and White Southerners with Republican.
What were scalawags and carpetbaggers?
Carpetbaggers were usually rich, Republican capitalists who travels south during the Reconstruction era after the Civil War in order to invest their money in the new developing industries. Scalawags were Southern whites who supported the Reconstruction of the South.
What is a term used by conservative white southerners to describe northern whites who migrated to the south?
Carpetbaggers (it was a type of soft sided luggage)
On what subject did northern whites and southern whites agree?
slavery
What group of southerners were hated more than the carpetbaggers?
The group of Southerners who were often hated more than carpetbaggers were the "scalawags." Scalawags were white Southerners who supported Reconstruction and aligned themselves with the Republican Party, often seen as traitors to their region. Their collaboration with Northern politicians and support for policies that promoted civil rights for freedmen made them deeply unpopular among many Southern whites, who viewed them as opportunists seeking personal gain.
