Carpet-baggers

A carpet-bagger:   An outsider who takes part in political affairs.

Following the American Civil War, Northern profiteers, the Carpet-baggers, came down to the South bringing with them their possessions in carpet bags.   They joined the Southern traitors, seeking private gain exploiting the chaos and the reconstruction of government.

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