Wrong again (as usual). The term "Carpetbagger" refers specifically to a specific type of Northern Republican (at least in name; most were simple fortune-seekers and swindlers whose political affiliation was a matter of convenience rather than principle), who came South seeking to plunder the South by working for the corrupt Reconstruction governments. Theirs is a record of lying, thievery, bribery, corruption and outright thuggery and terrorism unmatched in the history of America before or since. The Union and Loyal Leagues made the Klan and the various redshirt groups look tame by comparison in the beginning, though the latter soon learned to fight back against them, in what has been called the "Second American Civil War". Do you have even the vaguest concept of just how vile and corrupt the process of so-called Reconstruction was? It was nothing more than an exercise in terrorism and vengeance, conducted for profit. You love the Yankees? Then own their filthy actions with them. All the historical revisionism you can muster up can't change the sordid facts of what they did, and what they did it for. This was the act of the most vengeful evil people to ever pollute the planet with their presence-the hateful, Jacobin, Radical Republicans of New England. No misfortune which might ever befall that lot and their equally disgusting progeny til the end of time could be worse than they deserve! Damn right I hate the North, and the scum who still populate it, and I hate its filthy culture, and a thousand years from now, I hope all descendants of Confederates will hate them with the same ferocity. I'll forgive the Yankees, when the Irish forgive the Brits, and the Jews forgive Hitler!
