scalawag|scalawags|scallawag|scallawags in English

noun

[scal·a·wag || 'skæləwæg]

dishonest person, rascal, scoundrel (Slang)

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1. Carpetbaggers and Scalawags "Carpetbagger" and "scalawag" were derogatory terms used to deride white Republicans from the North or southern-born radicals during Reconstruction.

2. Git the hell out of here, you damned Scallawag. "

3. Drunk and out with a -- a Yankee - loving Scallawag like Captain Butler!

4. 6 " One damned bast -- Scallawag less,'said Tony, holding out his glass for another drink.

5. Alexander White, a white congressman from Alabama, describes the role that “Carpetbaggers” and “scalawags” played in Reconstruction politics

6. Carpetbagger referred to Republicans who had recently migrated from the North; scalawag referred to southern-born radicals

7. Both the scalawags and the Carpetbaggers were resented by many Southerners and became the targets of the Ku Klux Klan.

8. Words such as Carpetbagger and scalawag are ideographs, symbolic words so resonant with political imagery and meaning that they influence political behavior.

9. Sure, peddle a few lightning rods, pick up a couple of bucks in a shell game fleece a yokel without even scratching him and you're a scalawag.

10. New Republican governments came to power based on a coalition of Freedmen together with Carpetbaggers (new arrivals from the North), and Scalawags (native white Southerners).

11. Never before or after did the names Republican and Scallawag carry such odium , for now the corruption of the Carpet bag regime was at its height.

12. Scalawag, after the American Civil War, a pejorative term for a white Southerner who supported the federal plan of Reconstruction or who joined with black freedmen and the so-called Carpetbaggers in support of Republican Party policies

13. For the most part, it was the Carpetbaggers who were the dominant factor in the Deep South, where the black vote would have outnumbered the white, while the scalawags were influential in the Upper South