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What is an antonym for carpetbagger?

A local, a native, or a resident would be antonyms for carpetbagger.


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Who first coined the word carpetbagger?

Like scalawag and peckerwood, it is unknown who coined the post-Civil War term carpetbagger, but it came into common use and is still used occasionally. Some New Yorkers called Hilary Rodham-Clinton a carpetbagger when she ran for a US Senate seat in New York, which would make her something of a reverse carpetbagger.


How do you spell carpetbager?

The spelling "carpetter" would be one who installs carpeting.The likely word may be carpenter, someone in woodworking and/or wood construction.


What did a slave think of a carpetbagger?

Slaves may not have known (or just not cared) that the person was a carpetbagger. They just would vote for them because the carpetbagger was a republican (Abe Lincoln was a republican, so slaves kind of saw the whole party as being completely against slavery, which they mostly were). In other words, they were probably happy that they could support an anti-slavery politician, and the carpetbagger was probably happy that he was getting some political power.


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