carpetbagger

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“People do worry about a top-down approach,” Hernandez added, lamenting the L.A. carpetbagger attitude of “‘we know what we’re doing, we don’t need your input.’

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 8, 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

Massachusetts native Robert F. Kennedy faced carpetbagger complaints when he ran for the Senate in New York in 1964.

From Washington Times • Jul. 18, 2022

Chris Boyle, the campaign’s communications director, portrayed Mr. Gershon as an inexperienced elitist and a carpetbagger.

From New York Times • Oct. 15, 2018

Leslie, a South Carolina carpetbagger, declared that "South Carolina has no right to be a state unless she can support her statesmen," and he proceeded to live up to this principle.

From The Sequel of Appomattox : a chronicle of the reunion of the states by Fleming, Walter Lynwood