Examples of scalawag in the following topics:
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- "Carpetbaggers" and "scalawags" are pejorative terms that were used by Southerners during the Reconstruction period.
- Like "carpetbagger," the term "scalawag" has a long history of use as a slur.
- Two of the most prominent scalawags were General James Longstreet, one of Robert E.
- Scalawags were denounced as corrupt by Democrats.
- Scalawags, along with carpetbaggers, were also targets of violence, mainly by the Ku Klux Klan.
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- However, some plain folk became Republicans (they were called "scalawags").
- Most, however, remained conservatives who politically opposed the carpetbaggers, freedmen, and scalawags who comprised the Republican Party in the South.
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- In the South, the Republicans won strong support from the freedmen (newly enfranchised African Americans), but the party was usually controlled by local whites ("scalawags") and opportunistic Yankees ("carpetbaggers").
- By the mid-1870s, it was clear that Confederate nationalism was dead; all but the most ardent Republican "Stalwarts" agreed that the southern Republican coalition of African-American freedmen, scalawags, and carpetbaggers was helpless and hopeless.
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- During Reconstruction (1866-1876), the Republicans dominated the South with their strong base among African-Americans, augmented by Scalawags.
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- In several states, the more conservative "scalawags" fought for control with the more radical "carpetbaggers," and the Republican Party steadily lost support.
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- Redeemers were the southern wing of the Bourbon Democrats—the conservative, pro-business faction in the Democratic Party who sought to oust the Republican coalition of freedmen, carpetbaggers, and scalawags.
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- Through elections in the South, ex-Confederate officeholders were gradually replaced with a coalition of freedmen, Southern whites (scalawags), and Northerners who had resettled in the South (carpetbaggers).