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In United States history, scalawag (sometimes spelled scallawag or scallywag) was a pejorative slur referred to white Southerners who supported Reconstruction policies and efforts after the conclusion of the American Civil War. As with the term carpetbagger, the word has a long history of use as a slur in Southern partisan debates.
Scalawag is a nickname for Southern whites who supported Reconstruction after the American Civil War.. Scalawag may also refer to: . Scalawag, a 1973 film directed by Kirk Douglas
Today, being a larrikin has positive connotations and we think of it as the key to unlocking the Australian identity: a bloke who refuses to stand on ceremony and is a bit of a scallywag. When it first emerged around 1870, however, 'larrikin' was a term of abuse, used to describe teenage working-class hell-raisers who populated dance halls and ...
Scallywag may refer to: Scallywag (magazine) , an alternative community magazine of the 1990s Scallywags (Second World War) , a nickname for the British GHQ Auxiliary Units, who were to engage in guerilla warfare in the event of a Nazi invasion
The higher the score the more likely the person was a Republican (that is a Scalawag). Rjensen 02:25, 16 May 2006 (UTC) Aside from setting a record for awkward writing, that paragraph and the list assumes reader knows who is Breckinridge, Bell and Douglas. Skywriter 13:07, 16 May 2006 (UTC)
This list contains Germanic elements of the English language which have a close corresponding Latinate form. The correspondence is semantic—in most cases these words are not cognates, but in some cases they are doublets, i.e., ultimately derived from the same root, generally Proto-Indo-European, as in cow and beef, both ultimately from PIE *gʷōus.
Scoundrels and Scallywags: Characters from Alberta's Past, originally published in 2002 by Fifth House under ISBN 1-894004-92-2, is a book of short biographical profiles written by Irish-Canadian author Brian Brennan.
Scallywag disappeared from print and moved to a site on the World Wide Web instead. Lewis followed and won damages from Scallywag ' s internet service provider, closing the site down. Regan responded by accusing Lewis of lying, and decided to attempt to sabotage Lewis' campaign in New Forest East where he was the Conservative candidate for the ...