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While the behavior of a few of the carpetbaggers is, according to Current, "rather difficult to defend," most were not unusually corrupt.
In particular, carpetbaggers were scorned for capitalizing on the freed slaves' newly granted right to vote.
(The black carpetbaggers, who ruled parts of the South following the Civil War, were sincere democrats, he proved, not venal dictators.)
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.