What does it mean to call someone a carpetbagger?
An outsider who pretends to be an insider is a carpetbagger; he's a person who tries to take advantage of a group by joining it only for his own personal benefit. Northerners who moved south during Reconstruction in the 1860s and 70s were the original carpetbaggers, named for their suitcases.
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