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For all its currency, the carpetbagger charge only carries these days in parochial places and when it plays into other, more potent, liabilities: the naked ambition of Dawkins or Huffington, the Washington-insider image of Brock.
Speaking of local issues, the carpetbagger issue rankles me, too, but for different reasons.
carpetbagger.com is taken.
Actually, when McCain first ran for the House of Representatives, he was accused of being a carpetbagger.
Testifying before a congressional committee in 1872, Alabama Democrat William M. Lowe explained, "A carpetbagger is generally understood to be a man who comes here for office sake, of an ignorant or bad character, and who seeks to array the negroes against the whites."