carpetbagger

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After the Civil war the carpetbaggers from the north tried to take over the south.
美國內戰(zhàn)以后，北方的外來者試圖控制南方。
I'm going to make friends with the Yankee carpetbaggers now and I'll beat them at their own game, and you'll beat them with me.
我會和那些北佬投機家們交朋友的，我會運用他們自己制定的游戲規(guī)則來擊敗他們，你要和我一起來擊敗他們。
"But they come through here like carpetbaggers, " he added. " They just kind of show up on the scene, do a game, disappear, and then come back two years later.
“但是他們在這兒的所作所為更像一個投機者，”他說“他們僅僅關心表面文章，玩一場游戲，消失，然后兩年后回來。
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Many of the new governors and state officials were carpetbaggers from outside the state.
Southerners also had a name for their own people who cooperated with the carpetbaggers.
They had a special name for them: carpetbaggers.

It also played bad cop, in part by painting protesters as carpetbaggers.
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(POLITICS) someone who tries to be elected as a politician in a place away from their home because they think there is a greater chance of succeeding there
(MONEY) someone who invests in a financial organization that is owned by its members, in order to make a profit if it is sold

If you call someone a carpetbagger, you disapprove of them because they are trying to become a politician in an area which is not their home, simply because they think they are more likely to succeed there.