• Chocrates@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    I thought carpetbagging explicitly meant what you said, but moving to reconstruction south from one of the union states.

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      3 months ago

      Yes, that’s how it originated, and it was further used to describe any opportunistic politician moving to another geographic region to win elections there.