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Venn diagram of carpetbaggers and scalawags.
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White businessmen generally boycotted republican papers which survived through government patronage.
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48 scalawags were members of the 1867 constitutional convention 49 5 of the republican membership.
In most cases the carpetbaggers won out and many scalawags moved into the conservative or democratic opposition.
A temporary political vacuum existed in the postwar south.
Beginning in 1867 they formed a coalition with carpetbaggers one sixth of the electorate and scalawags one fifth to gain control of southern state legislatures for the republican party.
Republican governments filled the void and were able to retain control by depending upon the votes of the newly enfranchised blacks.
15 were nominated or elected to congress 48 compared to 11 carpetbaggers and 5 blacks.
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Most of the 430 republican newspapers in the south were edited by scalawags 20 percent were edited by carpetbaggers.
Meanwhile white southerners who supported reconstruction era republicans were called scalawags by their political enemies who considered them traitors to the south and just as bad if not worse.
However fewer scalawags won nominations to federal offices.