scalawag

• A cameo by Ricky Gervais as a scalawag named Ferdy the Fence seems to be cut from similarly extravagant cloth. —  FSF,January2008
• Thus the political vocabulary of Page's formative years consisted chiefly of such words as “scalawag,” “carpet bagger,” “regulator,” “Union League,” “Ku Klux Klan,” and the like. —  The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page, Volume I
• Nick Schager writes that it "ultimately stays just afloat thanks to Depp's uniquely idiosyncratic scalawag, the actor imbuing his preening, loose-limbed pirate with a drunken dancer's grace and a combination of colorful Chuck Jones mischievousness." —  GreenCine Daily
• A "scalawag" was any Southern white who allied himself politically with the negroes, and a "carpet-bagger" was a Northern adventurer, for whose worldly goods a gripsack sufficed,--or, in general, any Northerner whatever For the blacks, the sudden opening of political power and preferment, however designed, was in effect a very doubtful benefit. —  The Negro and the Nation A History of American Slavery and Enfranchisement
• In the second place it is hard to believe that Sumner and Stevens, men of brilliant legal minds, would give advice that could not be carried out, even if practicable No man of the master class in South Carolina, however conservative, would stand for being called a scalawag There were practically no Union men in South Carolina. —  The Journal of Negro History, Volume 6, 1921

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