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Noun
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carpetbagger
- politics An candidate who runs in a district where he or she has not previously held residence.
#: Though he lived and worked in Los Angeles for sixteen years, the candidate for Attorney General is no carpetbagger; he was born and raised in this state and graduated from the state university.
- context|often capitalized One of several Northern politicians who migrated to the South during Reconstruction and held public office.
- context|pejorative By extension, a Northern with no Southern ties who migrates to the South for work.
#:He's just a carpetbagger who was surprised to find that Southerns are not like the cast of The Dukes of Hazzard or Deliverance.
Related terms
carpetbag
Translations
Portuguese: candidato forasteiro, pára-quedista � s.m.
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