Carpetbaggers and Scalawags...
Note: Robert Caro, in Means of Ascent, as quoted by Sidney Blumenthal:
http://content.epnet.com/pdf10/pdf/1990/NRP/04Jun90/12030932.pdf?T=P&P=AN&K=12030932&EbscoContent=dGJyMNXb4kSep7Y4yOvqOLCmrk%2bep7BSsKa4Sa6WxWXSAAAA&ContentCustomer=dGJyMPGptU%2bwrrNPrOPfgeyk44Dt6fIA&S=R&D=fjh: [Richard Coke] a Confederate veteran who in 1873 wrested the government of Texas from the Carpetbaggeres and freed the state from the injustices of Reconstruction..."
