Gobstruck Guest, you might check to see what Abraham Lincoln said regarding how the South, after capitulation, should be viewed and treated.

'Carpetbaggers', nowadays, could be called 'briefcase toters'. Carpet bags were actually carpet-sided (for durability) bags first primarily carried by 'drummers' (no relation to music- so what's changed? *G*) for their wares and then by the speculators as well as other 'visitors' from the north.

Ebbie