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  NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Carpetbaggers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
In the United States, the negative term carpetbagger was used to refer to a Northerner who traveled to the South after the American Civil War, through the late 1860s and the 1870s, during Reconstruction.
Carpetbaggers are not to be confused with scalawags, who were Republican sympathizers in the South during Reconstruction.
Carpetbaggers were so named after the habit of carrying belongings in a carpet bag.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Carpetbaggers   (651 words)

  
 Carpetbagger - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Many Carpetbaggers and Scalawags shared a Whiggish vision of modernizing the South, one that would overthrow the crippled Southern plantation regime and replace it with industrial capitalism.
Carpetbaggers often filled the political vacuum and were elected to local, state and national office.
Carpetbagger from Vermont: The Autobiography of Marshall Harvey Twitchell.
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 The Carpetbaggers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Carpetbaggers is the title of a 1961 bestselling novel by Harold Robbins, which was adapted into a 1964 film of the same title.
The term "carpetbagger" has the generic meaning of a presumptuous newcomer who enters a new territory seeking success.
In this case, the territory is the movie industry, and the newcomer is a wealthy heir to an industrial fortune who, like Howard Hughes, simultaneously pursued aviation and moviemaking avocations.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Carpetbaggers   (1089 words)

  
 BBC News | BUSINESS | Carpetbaggers race to beat deadline
Carpetbaggers open accounts to gain membership, demand demutualisation and then sell the "windfall" shares they are given as members once the society converts to a publicly listed status.
The remaining building societies argue that they provide long-term benefits for their members, and that it should not be so easy for carpetbaggers to join a mutual society just to force a vote on demutualisation.
The attack on the three building societies follows the successful move by carpetbaggers on Britain's second-biggest, the Bradford & Bingley, in April when a resolution in favour of a demutualisation was approved despite the opposition of its board.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/business/544649.stm   (530 words)

  
 Reconstruction Period
Carpetbaggers were predatory Northerners and fls, who went down to help the Southerners for a very high price during the Reconstruction Period.
In the political arena, the carpetbaggers again acted for their own profit and turned the tools of government towards the corrupt end and away from the reconstruction of the South.
Unfortunately, while the carpetbaggers may have seemed nice doing all these things, most of them they were overcharging for their services and taking advantage of the situation.
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 carpetbaggers - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
CARPETBAGGERS [carpetbaggers] epithet used in the South after the Civil War to describe Northerners who went to the South during Reconstruction to make money.
Although regarded as transients because of the carpetbags in which they carried their possessions (hence the name carpetbaggers), most intended to settle in the South and take advantage of speculative and commercial opportunities there.
With the support of the fl vote the carpetbaggers played an important role in the Republican state governments.
www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-carpetba.html   (245 words)

  
 Scalawag - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
They formed a coalition with Freedmen (fls who were former slaves) and Northern whites and fls, who were called Carpetbaggers to take part in running for office and governing the states where they lived.
They found it expedient to do business with Negroes and so-called carpetbaggers; but often they returned to the Democratic party as it gained sufficient strength to be a factor in Southern politics.
The term "scalawag" was intended as an insult by the opponents of the Republicans to attack political enemies who lost status by associating with fls.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Scalawag   (1917 words)

  
 Carpetbaggers: Flying secret missions behind the lines Flight Journal - Find Articles
Known as "the Carpetbaggers," a code name created by the 8th Air Force Higher Command Headquarters, they were undercover British and American units dealing in espionage and subterfuge.
The first Carpetbagger unit was formed by the American Joint Chiefs of Staff in the fall of 1943 from the 4th and 22nd squadrons of the disbanded 479th Antisubmarine Group.
As the Carpetbaggers grew, Harrington, which is remote and close to Tempsford, was chosen as the primary airfield.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3897/is_199902/ai_n8841779   (863 words)

  
 Modern Carpetbaggers: A Special Report
The common definition of "carpetbagger" is someone who moves from one area to another strictly for profit.
These new "carpetbaggers" contribute to many of the major problems on the campaign finance scene in Wisconsin that could be improved with increased public financing and more stringent spending limits.
The purpose of this report, "Modern Carpetbaggers," is to identify the legislators who accept large portions of their contributions from outside of their districts and as a result are the most vulnerable to the influence of the fat cats and special interests that make up the modern carpetbaggers.
www.wisdc.org /carpetbaggersweb.php   (3453 words)

  
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 DVD Verdict Review - The Carpetbaggers
The Carpetbaggers is a movie that will likely divide any audience that sees it (and they will be few, but they will be there).
Soon it becomes evident that Jonas is becoming the man he hated most, and it's going to take the efforts of those that care for him to make him understand the terrible secret that motivates his ineffable corruption.
Paramount's DVD of The Carpetbaggers is presented in a 1:85:1 anamorphic transfer from a terrific source print.
www.dvdverdict.com /reviews/carpetbaggers.php   (1296 words)

  
 Carpetbaggers Shopping & Information
Edge Of The Sword: The Ordeal Of Carpetbagger Marshall H. Twitchell In The Ci...
It was not a part of the Confederacy at all, formed to protect Southerners from the Northern Carpetbaggers during reconstruction.
"Carpetbaggers", as generally understood, is a term of opprobrium applied to civilian Yankees who invaded the South after the Civil War in search...
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 Handbook of Texas Online:
Southern Democrats alleged that the newcomers were corrupt and dishonest adventurers, whose property consisted only of what they could carry in their carpetbags (suitcases made of carpeting), who seized political power and plundered the helpless people of the South.
This assessment of the carpetbagger became standard in late-nineteenth-century histories and retained its currency among some historians as late as the 1990s.
Few in numbers, never particularly powerful relative to the native white or scalawag element of the Republican party, the carpetbaggers of Texas played a minor role in Texas politics after the Civil War.
www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/view/CC/pfc1.html   (899 words)

  
 Handbook of Texas Online: CARPETBAGGERS
At the county level the actual number of carpetbaggers also was small.
In addition to their numerical insignificance, Texas carpetbaggers generally do not fit the stereotypical pattern.
Their lives and careers demonstrate the deficiencies with the traditional view of carpetbaggers.
www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/CC/pfc1_print.html   (894 words)

  
 Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for carpetbaggers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
carpetbaggers CARPETBAGGERS [carpetbaggers] epithet used in the South after the Civil War to describe Northerners who went to the South during Reconstruction to make money.
A Republican who came from the north was called a carpetbagger.
After serving in the Union army he was for a few years a carpetbagger lawyer and political judge in North Carolina.
www.encyclopedia.com /articles/02340.html   (618 words)

  
 Carpetbagger - David Carr - New York Times Blog
The Bagger is a little like that winner who hits the stage at the Oscars and, after giving his or her speech, can’t seem to find the exit.
For the final time (this Oscar season, at least), David Carr (a k a The Carpetbagger) goes to Times Square to share his thoughts on the end of the movie awards season.
The Bagger had a very successful red-eye – he got on the plane with 90 minutes of nigh-nigh under his belt in the past 24 hours and he only woke up when the captain said that the flight attendants should be seated for arrival.
carpetbagger.nytimes.com   (3039 words)

  
 Carpetbaggers Redux - Power To The Political Party!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
I´m reminded of the carpetbaggers who came South during Reconstruction to run businesses and politics—outsiders, with no care or concern for the local people, just taking advantage of the situation for their own benefit.
These were the local people, lifelong residents of the South who helped the carpetbaggers further cripple the South and leave it in ruins economically, culturally and socially.
Which is to say, regardless of where such carpetbaggers run, their main interest is not in the people of that state.
www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/649196/posts   (1922 words)

  
 The Carpetbaggers (1964): George Peppard, Alan Ladd, Robert Cummings - PopMatters Film Review
The original tagline for The Carpetbaggers declares, "This is adult entertainment!" But what constituted "adult entertainment" in the mid-1960s was complicated by the Production Code, Hollywood generated guideline of standards and norms for film content at the height of the studio era.
In The Carpetbaggers, the path to fame and fortune is reduced to hostile takeovers and dumb luck (not to mention nepotism).
On the surface, The Carpetbaggers is a harmless soap opera-ish confection, a gently titillating, possibly campy adaptation of a likeminded novel.
www.popmatters.com /film/reviews/c/carpetbaggers.shtml   (1050 words)

  
 The Carpetbagger - Civil War - Brief History of Carpetbags and Carpetbaggers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
All these outsiders (identified by their Carpetbag) were called Carpetbaggers and still are in many places.
It became the term to refer to a Yankee who moved to the south and usually meant a “damn Yankee and not to be trusted, a scoundrel”.
Probably the worst Carpetbaggers were the politicians who used their positions in the corrupt Reconstruction Government to enrich themselves through bribes, graft and other despicable acts at the expense of native Southerners.
www.thecarpetbagger.com /history.htm   (320 words)

  
 The Carpetbaggers - AOL Music
Hollywood must have perceived the similarity, too, for actress Carroll Baker, who played Rina Marlowe in The Carpetbaggers, was chosen a year later to play...
"Carpetbaggers" are named for the perceived practice of using carpet bags as...
As Foner notes, the Carpetbaggers often purchased or leased plantations and...
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 Carpetbaggers: America's Secret War in Europe by Eakin Press   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
This book tells the history of the super-secret WW2 unit known by the term "Carpetbaggers".
Flying from England, this USAAF unit flew agent drop and also supply missions for the British S.O.E. (Special Operations Executive) and for the United States OSS (Office of Stregic Services) operating in occupied Europe.
This may indeed be the only history of this important air unit.
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 Camp Followers, Contractors, and Carpetbaggers in Iraq
In many respects, carpetbagger rhetoric was an extension of antebellum secessionist ideology, which caricatured Northern society as excessively mercenary, lacking the “higher” ideals.
In its original usage then, “carpetbagger” was a reactionary’s word, a term of opprobrium most useful to those on the losing side of the Civil War.
It is not surprising then, given the partisan divide over the Iraq invasion and its aftermath, that the word carpetbagger has again resurfaced—invariably used by those who opposed the war, or who see an economic motive in the Bush administration’s management of Iraqi reconstruction.
www.hnn.us /articles/20067.html   (1689 words)

  
 Carpetbagger - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"Carpetbagger Intrigues, Black Leadership, and a Southern Loyalist Triumph: Florida's Gubernatorial Election of 1872" Florida Historical Quarterly 1994 72(3): 275-301.
"William Hines Furbush: African-American Carpetbagger, Republican, Fusionist, and Democrat," Arkansas Historical Quarterly 2004 63(2): 107-165.
Emma Spaulding Bryant: Civil War Bride, Carpetbagger's Wife, Ardent Feminist; Letters and Diaries, 1860-1900 Fordham U. Pr., 2004.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Carpetbagger   (3211 words)

  
 www.myspace.com/thecarpetbaggers
It was January '05, strung out at a flophouse in Camden, New Jersey, the Carpetbaggers first met while scrounging for needles and fending off crackheads.
They soon discovered that making music produced a similar euphoria to that of injecting skag into your veins, and was much cheaper.
Come experience the Carpetbaggers live, and you too may feel just like Jesus' son.
www.myspace.com /thecarpetbaggers   (355 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Programmes | Moneybox | Mutual boss tempts 'carpetbaggers'
The boss of one of Britain's top 20 building societies has put out the welcome mat to carpetbaggers, people who open an account in the hope of a windfall if the society is taken over or bought by a bank.
Kent Reliance is scrapping the rule that makes new members agree to pay any windfalls to charity if the society is bought by a bank or floated on the stock market in their first five years of membership.
From 1 June anyone taking out a mortgage or opening a savings account or cash ISA with at least £100 will become a full voting member of Kent Reliance and will benefit from any future windfall if it is bought or taken over.
news.bbc.co.uk /go/rss/-/1/hi/programmes/moneybox/5000724.stm   (488 words)

  
 Scalawags and Carpetbaggers
Despite the negative connotation of the name, many carpetbaggers were sincerely interested in aiding the freedom and education of the former slaves.
Both the scalawags and the carpetbaggers were resented by many Southerners and became the targets of the Ku Klux Klan.
Memorabilia related to Scalawags and Carpetbaggers is at auction on eBay.
www.u-s-history.com /pages/h240.html   (429 words)

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