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The opportunism of some carpetbaggers was more economic than political: The war-ravaged and economically stagnant South direly needed Northern investors to spur the kind of dynamic industrial and commercial growth that was transforming the rest of the country.
The carpetbaggers' reputation has improved, but the word's negative connotations have spread to cover all ambitious newcomers.
Having rehabilitated the carpetbaggers, we might as well give them back their good name.
Hardly a pack of jackals feeding off the crippled South, the carpetbaggers came from various backgrounds and acted from a range of motives, historians tell us.
While the behavior of a few of the carpetbaggers is, according to Current, "rather difficult to defend," most were not unusually corrupt.