Should-Read: Robert Caro: Means of Ascent: Carpetbaggers and Scalawags: "[Richard Coke,] a Confederate veteran who in 1873 wrested the government of Texas from the Carpetbaggers and freed the state from the injustices of Reconstruction..." http://www.bradford-delong.com/2007/07/carpetbaggers-a.html
...as quoted by Sidney Blumenthal.
