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The Civil War arose because Northerners feared that a small Southern "Slave Power" had seized control of Washington, while Southerners were convinced the North was determined to destroy their way of life.
Southerners pinned the label on both the opportunistic and idealistic Northerners who packed their worldly possessions into "carpetbags" during Reconstruction and moved to Dixie to enter politics.
(Delightful, and a bit confounding to we Northerners who can't believe what a sleepy Southern city this still is.)
There was some half-hearted fighting between northerners and southerners for control of the property and lands left by the Spanish missionaries, half of which was meant to be returned to the Native Americans but never was.
Northerners were also amused at a Southern matriarch's saying to a tardy arrival at the dinner table, We've waited for you the way one pig waits for another.