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carpetbagger
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carpetbagger

Epithet used during the Reconstruction period (1865–77) to describe a Northerner in the South seeking private gain. The word referred to an unwelcome outsider arriving with nothing more than his belongings packed in a satchel or carpetbag. Many carpetbaggers were involved in corrupt financial schemes, but others helped rebuild the economy in the South and participated in educational and social reform.


carpetbagger
1. a politician who seeks public office in a locality where he has no real connections
2. US a Northern White who went to the South after the Civil War to profit from Reconstruction


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He did the same with the 20th Senate District, edging out former Assemblyman Richard Katz and becoming the first Latino representative of a district that had once been a bastion for non-Latino, carpetbagging Democrats who kept moving into that district to seek office -- Herschel Rosenthal before Alarcon, and David Roberti before Rosenthal.
After talking to Iraqi organizations, Brahimi realized that the carpetbagging inventor of spurious WMD schemes and consumer of CIA subventions had virtually no support in the country.
In the last days of the electoral count, certain Republican leaders had secretly promised that if filibustering would cease, Hayes, upon becoming president, would withdraw the troops and allow the Carpetbagging governments to totter and fall.
 
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