whats the significate of carpetbagger
Carpetbagger
Everyone but themselves. They still do. A carpetbagger is a yankee who moves south for their own financial gain.
a New York businessman who relocated to Mississippi
A southerner who supported Republican reconstruction of the South was often called a scalawag.
The term "carpetbagger" originally referred to Northerners who moved to the South after the Civil War to profit from Reconstruction. It was used pejoratively by Southern Democrats to describe these individuals as opportunists exploiting the region's vulnerabilities. While it primarily applied to outsiders, it also encompassed Southern white individuals who supported Reconstruction and African American rights, portraying them as traitors to their region. Thus, the term carried strong negative connotations, reflecting the intense political and social tensions of the time.
A local, a native, or a resident would be antonyms for carpetbagger.
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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.
He was a carpetbagger
Opportunist. Swindler. Leech.
Carpetbagger is a noun, meaning a Northerner who moved to the Southern US after the Civil War, and especially one seeking political or commercial advantage. The word carpetbagger also refers to an outsider who comes in only seeking to win a political position.
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Carpetbagger
A scalawag is a white Southerner who works for or supports the fedaral government during reconstruction; and a carpetbagger is a Northerner who wnt South after the Civil War for political or financial reason.
dishonest carpetbaggers went south to make money