Carpetbagger | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-12-05

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Carpetbagger


00:01:30 1 Etymology and definition
00:02:29 2 Background
00:03:47 2.1 Reforming impulse
00:05:17 2.2 Economic motives
00:08:03 3 Examples of prominent carpetbaggers in state politics
00:08:15 3.1 Mississippi
00:12:10 3.2 North Carolina
00:15:26 3.3 South Carolina
00:17:29 3.4 Louisiana
00:19:16 3.5 Alabama
00:19:49 3.6 Georgia
00:20:28 3.7 Arkansas
00:21:14 3.7.1 William Furbush
00:24:05 3.8 Texas
00:25:50 4 Historiography
00:26:21 5 Modern use
00:26:30 5.1 United Kingdom
00:26:38 5.1.1 Building societies
00:28:43 5.1.2 Politics
00:29:01 5.2 World War II
00:29:46 5.3 Australia
00:30:21 5.4 United States
00:31:02 5.5 Cuisine



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In the history of the United States, a carpetbagger was any person from the Northern United States who came to the Southern states after the American Civil War and was perceived to be exploiting the local populace. The term broadly included both individuals who sought to promote Republican politics (which favored, among other things, better treatment of freedmen), and those individuals who saw business opportunities because of the chaotic state of the local economies following the war. In practice, the term carpetbagger was often applied to any Northerner who was present in the South during the Reconstruction Era (1863–1877).
White Southerners commonly denounced carpetbaggers collectively during the post-war years, fearing they would loot and plunder the defeated South and be politically allied with the Radical Republicans. Sixty men from the North, including educated free blacks and slaves who had escaped to the North and returned South after the war, were elected from the South as Republicans to Congress. The majority of Republican governors in the South during Reconstruction were from the North. 
Historian Eric Foner argues:

... most carpetbaggers probably combine the desire for personal gain with a commitment to taking part in an effort "to substitute the civilization of freedom for that of slavery". ... Carpetbaggers generally supported measures aimed at democratizing and modernizing the South – civil rights legislation, aid to economic development, the establishment of public school systems.