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The word scalawag has an uncertain origin. Its earliest attestation is from 1848 to mean a disreputable fellow. [5] It has been speculated that "perhaps the original use of the word" referred to low-grade farm animals, but this meaning of the word was not attested until 1854. [6]
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.
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
A century ago (or more), we used more colorful terms to abuse one another. Here are some we need to bring back post haste.
Josiah Dunlow - 1st North Carolina Union Volunteers. The term Southern Unionist, and its variations, incorporate a spectrum of beliefs and actions.Some, such as Texas governor Sam Houston, were vocal in their support of Southern interests, but believed that those interests could best be maintained by remaining in the Union as it existed.
The expression "white trash" probably originated in the slang used by enslaved African Americans, in the early decades of the 1800s, and was quickly adopted by richer white people who used the term to stigmatize and separate themselves from the kind of whites they considered to be inferior [12] and without honor, thus carrying on "the ancient prejudice against menials, swineherds, peddlers and ...
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Thesaurus Linguae Latinae. A modern english thesaurus. A thesaurus (pl.: thesauri or thesauruses), sometimes called a synonym dictionary or dictionary of synonyms, is a reference work which arranges words by their meanings (or in simpler terms, a book where one can find different words with similar meanings to other words), [1] [2] sometimes as a hierarchy of broader and narrower terms ...