Scalawag
scalawags
It depended whether you were willing to work with the Republican government. If you were, you would be called a 'Scalawag'.
SCALAWAG was a post civil war, reconstruction era term of insult for a white southerner who supported reconstruction efforts. The word comes down through the English language with various meanings over time, such as "farm laborer", "disreputable fellow", "habitual jokster", and early definition uses it as "undersized or worthless animal".
A southerner who supported Republican reconstruction of the South was often called a scalawag.
Scalawags were southern whites who supported Reconstruction and the Republican Party after the American Civil War. Samuel F. Phillips was perhaps the most famous scalawag.
Scalawags were southern whites who supported Reconstruction and the Republican Party after the American Civil War. Samuel F. Phillips was perhaps the most famous scalawag.
Scalawags were southern whites who supported Reconstruction and the Republican Party after the American Civil War. Samuel F. Phillips was perhaps the most famous scalawag.
Get Back here, You SCAlAWAG!
A scalawag is a person who behaves badly or dishonestly.
The cast of The Scalawag - 1912 includes: Jack Conway as Lem - the Scalawag
Scalawag - 1973 is rated/received certificates of: USA:G
(A scalawag was a US southerner who supported the policies of Reconstruction after the Civil War.)"It was not unusual for a scalawag to be run out of town by the families of Confederate veterans.""A scalawag was usually out to gain money or power by supporting the actions of the carpetbaggers from the North."
Did you know that Scalawags was a name for Southern Whites who supported reconstruction after the Civil War. As a derogatory term it refers to a rascal or a worthless fellow. So if you want to be constructively critical of someone, although you should not be, a sentence can be short and sweet ' I think you are a scalawag'
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a deceitful and unreliable person
Southerners who supported the government for their own gain.