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Definitions of carpetbagger on the Web:

• the derogatory term for Northerners who came to the South after the Civil War. Some came to do good. Others came to take advantage of the situation after the war. Some used the votes of black voters to get themselves elected, and figured out crooked ways to profit from holding public office. Carpetbaggers and Southern blacks were usually Republicans, and held considerable power in the Southern states in the Reconstruction era.