carpetbaggers and
carpetbaggers and
carpetbaggers and::Since any group has its corrupt members, there were a few who misbehaved in the ways he mentions.Further, successful propaganda against these groups was helped by any of their failures so those did contribute to the failure of reconstruction, though most of the blame rests with their opponents.
But many of those who bore this label were clearly nothing of the sort.
In fact, more recent studies have concluded that the leaders of these reconstruction governments were no worse, and often better, in managing the government, money, etc.
Who were these folks exactly.
In fact, there were significant numbers of people and whole areas of several states, esp.
In the mountainous regionswho had opposed secession as wrong and had even fought for the union in the war.
But the southern whigs, even if they ended up in the democratic party at that time, did not suddenly lose all their whig convictions!
These were largely old southern whigs who wanted to preserve the union and were distressed at the secessionist control of the southern democratic party.
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