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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; Scalawags, a podcast about the Scala programming language; Scalawag, an American nonprofit magazine focused on Southern politics and culture
1872 cartoon depiction of Carl Schurz as a carpetbagger. In the history of the United States, carpetbagger is a largely historical pejorative used by Southerners to describe allegedly opportunistic or disruptive Northerners who came to the Southern states after the American Civil War and were perceived to be exploiting the local populace for their own financial, political, or social gain.
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Scallywag may refer to: . Scallywag, 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
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