Quotes About Carpetbagger

Well, Mr. Carpetbagger. We got somethin' in this territory called the Missouri boat ride. -Josey Wales

I've lived in the state almost my entire life, so I think if I ever wanted to come back and serve in Virginia, it would be pretty hard to paint me as a carpetbagger.

The carpetbagger, a rapacious adventurer feeding off the prostrate South, could be identified by the cheap black valise he carried. Worse than the carpetbagger, though, was the "scalawag," a betrayer. He was a southern white Republican who had sold his soul (and sold out his race) for filthy lucre.