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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."
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.
An experienced Democratic fund-raiser sounded the lonely note in a New York Times op-ed that star-struck local pols have chickened out of the race in deference to a carpetbagger.
An article counsels that Hillary Clinton must overcome the carpetbagger question and press-phobia to win the New York Senate race.
Speaking of local issues, the carpetbagger issue rankles me, too, but for different reasons.