एक सफेद साउथर्नर जिन्होंने अमेरिकी गृह युद्ध के बाद पुनर्निर्माण नीतियों का समर्थन किया (आमतौर पर स्व-हित के लिए

scalawags's Usage Examples:

During the Reconstruction the people of the South were divided thus: nearly all native whites (the most prominent of whom were disfranchised) on one side irrespective of former political faith, and on the other side the ex-slaves organized and led by a few native and Northern whites called respectively scalawags and carpet-baggers, who were supported by the United States government and who controlled the Southern state governments.

The elections were controlled for a few years, and violence was checked, but the Ku Klux movement went on until it accomplished its object by giving protection to the whites, reducing the blacks to order, replacing the whites in control of society and state, expelling the worst of the carpet-baggers and scalawags, and nullifying those laws of Congress which had resulted in placing the Southern whites under the control of a party composed principally of ex-slaves.

Nearly all southern whites (except "scalawags"), whether members of the secret societies or hot, in some way took part in the Ku Klux movement.

scalawags's Meaning':

a white Southerner who supported Reconstruction policies after the American Civil War (usually for self-interest

Synonyms:

tyke, youngster, minor, holy terror, kid, child, tiddler, scallywag, rascal, small fry, nestling, brat, nipper, shaver, imp, rapscallion, monkey, tike, terror, scamp, fry, little terror,

Antonyms:

adult, unlimited, major, unpardonable, majority,