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Carpetbagger (3634 bytes)
3: In the [[United States]], the negative term '''carpetbagger''' was used to refer to a Northerner who traveled...
5: ...a result of the war. Due to resentment toward the carpetbaggers during [[Reconstruction]], Southerners clung to ...
7: ''Carpetbaggers'' are not to be confused with ''[[scalawag]]s'',...
9: ...o be found by travelling South, and many of these carpetbaggers became [[mayor]]s, [[governor]]s, and [[business...
13: ...c Party|Democrat]] [[Hillary Clinton]] of being a carpetbagger when she moved to [[New York (state)|New York]] t...

Parachute candidate (350 bytes)
1: A '''parachute candidate''', often called a '''[[carpetbagger]]''' in the [[United States]], is a political ter...

Sue W. Kelly (723 bytes)
3: ...he did criticize [[Hillary Rodham Clinton]] as a "carpetbagger" when Hillary ran for the Senate from New York.

Powell Clayton (3865 bytes)
1: ...[1833]] - [[23 August]] [[1914]]) was the first [[carpetbagger|carpetbag]] [[List of Governors of Arkansas|Gover...
15: ...ranchised ex-Confederates. With his absence the [[carpetbagger]] government was soon replaced by a [[redeemer go...

Demutualization (1893 bytes)
18: * [[Carpetbagger]] (UK usage)

Compromise of 1877 (1970 bytes)
8: ...r]]" governments that displaced the Republican "[[carpetbagger]]" governments. After the Compromise of 1877, the...

List of political metaphors (1976 bytes)
17: *a [[parachute candidate]] / [[carpetbagger]]: a candidate who runs for election in an area w...

Colonel Angus (1872 bytes)
14: *[[Carpetbagger]]

The Birth of a Nation (2282 bytes)
4: ...lux Klan]] successfully redeems the South from "[[carpetbagger]]s" and "[[mulatto]]s", perceived in the film as ...

Jackie Biskupski (2433 bytes)
6: ...rceived Ruzicka to be both [[homophobic]] and a [[carpetbagger]] in the election.

List of words meaning outsider, foreigner or "not one of us" (2856 bytes)
10: *[[Carpetbagger]] – [[Reconstruction]]-era [[U.S. South]]

Isaac Murphy (6006 bytes)
29: ...tary districts and were ruled by the army until [[carpetbagger]] governments were in place. Murphy decided to r...
35: ...er years and Arkansas textbooks that berated the "carpetbagger governments" reserved kind words for Isaac Murphy...

40 acres and a mule (2530 bytes)
10: ...e Wind]]'' pictures freed slaves listening to a [[carpetbagger]] promising them 40 acres and a mule.

Tom Kindness (3056 bytes)
9: ...ongressmen. Boehner also depicted Kindness as a [[carpetbagger]] who had abandoned his district for Washington. ...

Logan County, Arkansas (3939 bytes)
5: ...d the resolution. The senator was viewed as a ''[[carpetbagger]]'', and after the [[Reconstruction era (United S...

List of pejorative political puns (4140 bytes)
23: * '''Senator Hillary Carpetbagger''': suggests that Hillary is a political opportun...

Yankee (5106 bytes)
22: ...e north of the [[Mason-Dixon Line]]. (See also [[carpetbagger]].) Thus, in either case the principal use of the...

Francis P. Fleming (5454 bytes)
10: ...designed to limit the voting rights of blacks and carpetbaggers not protected by the [[grandfather clause]]. Fle...

Vigilance committee (5702 bytes)
12: ...ntimidated the unpopular and sometimes criminal [[Carpetbagger|government official]]s appointed under [[Reconstr...

Chen Yi (Kuomintang) (6231 bytes)
14: ... to widespread local discontent. Allegations of [[carpetbagger|carpet bagging]] by new immigrants from the mainl...

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