carpetbagger
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As far as some Virginians were concerned, he was also an integrationist carpetbagger.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 22, 2024
What’s more, to dismiss the photographer as some kind of carpetbagger was, arguably, to misunderstand the West.
From New York Times • Apr. 25, 2023
Mr. Fetterman, who is recovering from a stroke he suffered in May, has cast Mr. Oz as a carpetbagger and out of touch with everyday people.
From Washington Times • Sep. 3, 2022
From Heizer’s perspective, the family history proves he’s not a carpetbagger like some other artists who headed west to make earthworks, Robert Smithson prominent among them.
From Seattle Times • Aug. 21, 2022
Their new position as freemen taking a part in the government, the rôle of the carpetbagger, and the undesirable conditions of that régime play some part in the story.
From The Journal of Negro History, Volume 4, 1919 by Various
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The American Civil War
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