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Carpetbag,
tapestry wool, mid 19th century. (The Valentine Museum)
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Widely used
as travel bags in the mid 19th century, carpetbags became associated with
Northern white Republicans who moved South after the Civil War.
"Carpetbagger,"
a derisive term devised by Reconstruction's opponents, has remained part
of the vocabulary of American politics
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