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Confederate apologists, who wrote the first round of histories of the South, portrayed slavery as a benign, paternalistic institution (for more on this topic, see "") and painted the carpetbaggers as venal and corrupt interlopers.
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.
Having rehabilitated the carpetbaggers, we might as well give them back their good name.
As for disturbing race relations, of course many carpetbaggers did so--that was the whole idea.
In particular, carpetbaggers were scorned for capitalizing on the freed slaves' newly granted right to vote.