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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.
The carpetbaggers' reputation has improved, but the word's negative connotations have spread to cover all ambitious newcomers.
While the behavior of a few of the carpetbaggers is, according to Current, "rather difficult to defend," most were not unusually corrupt.
As for disturbing race relations, of course many carpetbaggers did so--that was the whole idea.