Carpet Bag Pattern Civil War. Carpetbaggers was the highly derisive name given to northerners who went south after the fall of the confederate states of america (csa). Carpetbagger was the pejorative term applied to northerners who moved to the south after the civil war, specifically those who joined state republican parties.
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During the reconstruction era after the civil war, northerners who ventured south in search of profit and political opportunity carried their personal goods and belongings in carpetbags and were derisively called. This became a way to identify an outsider (traveler) in town. Carpetbagger was the pejorative term applied to northerners who moved to the south after the civil war, specifically those who joined state republican parties.
Carpetbaggers was the highly derisive name given to northerners who went south after the fall of the confederate states of america (csa). This became a way to identify an outsider (traveler) in town. Carpetbagger was the pejorative term applied to northerners who moved to the south after the civil war, specifically those who joined state republican parties.
