Carpetbagger: Off To The Races!

By MELENA RYZIK, New York Times
Mon, 11/26/2012 - 9:55am

Thanksgiving is over and to Hollywood that means one thing: awards season. Let the Carpetbagger be your guide to all things Oscar.

Sections: movies

Topics: 85th academy awards academy awards oscars thanksgiving

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Carpetbagger
Carpetbagger. In United States history, a carpetbagger was a Northerner ( Yankee) who moved to the South after the U.S. Civil War, especially during the Reconstruction era (1865–1877), in order to profit from the instability and power vacuum that existed at this time.
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carpetbagger, in the United States, a derogatory term for an individual from the North who relocated to the South during the Reconstruction period (1865–77), following the American Civil War. The term was applied to Northern politicians and financial adventurers whom Southerners accused of coming to the South to use the newly enfranchised ...
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