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    In the history of the United States, carpetbagger is a largely historical pejorative used by Southerners to describe allegedly opportunistic or disruptive...
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  • The Carpetbaggers is a 1961 bestselling novel by Harold Robbins, which was adapted into a 1964 film of the same title. The prequel Nevada Smith (1966)...
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  • the Civil War. Carpetbagger or The Carpetbaggers may also refer to: Operation Carpetbagger, a World War II operation The Carpetbaggers, a 1961 novel The...
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    Carpetbagger is an alt-country, Americana band based in Austin, Texas. The band was formed in spring of 2012. Carpetbagger consists of lead vocalist and...
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  • The Carpetbaggers is a 1964 American drama film directed by Edward Dmytryk, based on the best-selling 1961 novel The Carpetbaggers by Harold Robbins and...
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    Operation Carpetbagger was a World War II operation to provide aerial supply of weapons and other matériel to resistance fighters in France, Italy and...
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  • A parachute candidate, or carpetbagger in the United States, is a pejorative term for an election candidate who does not live in the area they are running...
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    Others African Americans Free people of color Freedman Politicians Carpetbaggers Ku Klux Klan Scalawag Redeemers White League Red Shirts Democratic Party...
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    Creole, which starred Elvis Presley. Among his best-known books is The Carpetbaggers (1961) – featuring a protagonist who was a loose composite of Howard...
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    efforts after the conclusion of the American Civil War. As with the term carpetbagger, the word has a long history of use as a slur in Southern partisan debates...
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    people such as Tennessee governor William Gannaway Brownlow, and other "carpetbaggers" and "scalawags". He argued that many Southerners believed that Black...
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    BAFTA and Golden Globe awards for her supporting performance in The Carpetbaggers (1964), and was nominated for an Emmy Award in 1991 for Evening Shade...
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    University Press of Florida, 2013. Cowart, John Wilson. Crackers and Carpetbaggers: Moments in the History of Jacksonville, Florida. Cowart, John Wilson...
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    this should not be confused with agent and supply drops, code-named "Carpetbaggers". The B-24 was the platform for the pioneering use of the Americans'...
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    Bombardment Group. This was the beginning of Operation Carpetbagger. The purpose of the Carpetbagger project was to fly special operations missions which...
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  • Carpetbagger from Vermont: The Autobiography of Marshall Harvey Twitchell, editor, Baton Rouge, 1989 Edge of the Sword: The Ordeal of Carpetbagger Marshall...
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    sinister roles, such as Oberon in A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935) and carpetbagger Jonas Wilkerson in Gone with the Wind (1939). From 1959 to 1961, he had...
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    Southern Reconstructed states were controlled locally by Republican carpetbaggers, scalawags and former slaves. By 1877, the conservative Democrats had...
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    under great difficulty from the twelve million belonging to the South. Carpetbagger – Pejorative for Northerners who moved South after the Civil War Copperhead...
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  • future with him. At the next board meeting, Hutch accuses Axe of being a carpetbagger. Jerome puts forth a motion to remove Hutch as CEO, much to the shock...
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    Euphora Story". Clarion-Ledger. p. 44. was named Sumner County by the carpetbagger powers-that-be in honor of the hated abolitionist. "Our History". Pearl...
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    questionable methods. They were all condemned with the pejorative term of carpetbagger. Some Southerners would also take advantage of the disrupted environment...
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  • with and released by Paramount Pictures. The movie is a prequel to The Carpetbaggers, a highly successful film from two years earlier based on the 1961 Harold...
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    (1961), and later portrayed a character based on Howard Hughes in The Carpetbaggers (1964). On television, he played the title role of millionaire insurance...
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    the original on October 25, 2013. ""Once" Again, a Legit Nominee". The Carpetbagger. The New York Times. January 29, 2008. Archived from the original on...
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    Amendment 15th Amendment Reconstruction Alabama Claims Brooks–Baxter War Carpetbaggers Colfax riot of 1873 Compromise of 1877 Confederate refugees Confederados...
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    Mann, Brian (May 20, 2014). "Is Elise Stefanik a fresh new voice or a carpetbagger?". northcountrypublicradio.org. "21st Congressional hopeful Elise Stefanik...
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  • Carpetbag steak or carpetbagger steak is a traditional working class dish from Mumbles, a historic oyster fishing village in Swansea, South Wales, UK....
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