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Definition of scalawags in English English dictionary: plural of scalawag
scalawag: A rascal. Alternative spelling of scallywag
scalawag: Any white Southerner who supported the federal plan of Reconstruction after the Civil War or who joined with the black freedmen and the carpetbaggers in support of Republican Party policies
scalawag: a deceitful and unreliable scoundrel
scalawag: A rascal
scalawag: Any white Southerner who supported the federal plan of Reconstruction after the Civil War or who joined with the black freedman and the carpetbaggers in support of Republican Party policies
scalawag: {i} dishonest person, rascal, scoundrel (Slang)
scalawag: one who is playfully mischievous
scalawag: A scamp; a scapegrace
scalawag: white Southerner supporting Reconstruction policies after the Civil War usually for self-interest
scalawag: a scallywag (Perhaps from scallag ). U.S. Southerner who supported Reconstruction. Opponents also applied the pejorative term to those who joined with carpetbaggers and freedmen to support Republican Party policies. The term, of unknown origin, was used from the 1840s to denote a worthless farm animal and later a worthless person. Scalawags included former Whigs and hill-country farmers with Unionist sympathies and constituted nearly 20% of the white electorate after the American Civil War. Many held government positions in the South and advocated moderate reforms

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