USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -scalawag, after the American Civil War, a pejorative term for a white Southerner who supported the federal plan of Reconstruction or who joined with black freedmen and the so-called carpetbaggers in support of Republican Party policies.

Detailed explanation-2: -Scalawags were particularly hated by 1860s–1870s Southern Democrats, who called Scalawags traitors to their region, which was long known for its widespread chattel slavery of Black people.

Detailed explanation-3: -White southern Republicans, known to their enemies as “scalawags, ” made up the biggest group of delegates to the Radical Reconstruction-era legislatures.

Detailed explanation-4: -A Scalawag was a white-American Southerner who supported Blacks after the American Civil War. Like the term carpetbagger, the word has a history of use as a slur in Southern one-sided debates. The opponents of the scalawags claimed they were disloyal to traditional values.