I M A Carpet Bagger

They were called carpetbaggers to imply that they were such poor transient characters that they merely moved south carrying all their possessions in a carpet bag.

I m a carpet bagger.

This makes it much easier to load on a truck wheel through doorways and carry up a flight of stairs. It was applied to politicians and financial adventurers whom southerners accused of coming south to use the newly enfranchised freedmen to obtain office or profit. Carpetbagger definition is a northerner in the south after the american civil war usually seeking private gain under the reconstruction governments. The term came to be associated with opportunism and exploitation by outsiders.

During reconstruction carpetbaggers were shifty characters who trolled the country meddling where they weren t really wanted like carpetbaggers heading into the south in the 1870s overseas coaches and players streamed into what was now a ripe arena of reconstruction. In the post us civil war south carpetbaggers were northerners who moved to the south to take advantage of the unstable social financial and political climate. Carpetbagger derogatory term originally used in the u s. The carpet badger weighs about the same as a bucket of glue 65 lbs and is only 16 x 28.

The term is now used in the united states to refer to a parachute candidate that is an outsider who runs. A carpet bag by the way isn t a bag for carrying carpet but a.