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scalawags , derogatory term used in the South after the Civil War to describe native white Southerners who joined the Republican party and aided in carrying out the congressional Reconstruction program. A Republican who came from the north was called a carpetbagger .

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scalawag A White supporter of the Republican Reconstruction programme in the American South in the early years after the AMERICAN CIVIL WAR. Like the CARPETBAGGERS with whom they associated, the scalawags were a diverse group including some profiteers, but also businessmen, reformers, former Southern Whigs, and poor yeoman farmers who supported the Republican regime.

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