carpetbagger

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈkɑɹpɪtˌbæɡɚ/

名詞

アメリカ英語 攻撃的 広義 軽蔑的

(politics, history, chiefly US, offensive) A migrant from the Northern to the Southern States after the American Civil War of 1861–5, especially one who went South to gain political influence.

日本語の意味

南北戦争後（1861～1865年）、政治的影響力を得る目的で、北部から南部へ移住した人物を、軽蔑的な意味で指す言葉。

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After the war, he was labeled a carpetbagger by the townspeople for seeking office in their county.

南北戦争後、彼は郡の公職を求めていたため、住民から政治的影響力を得ようと南部へ移り住んだ北部出身の人だと非難された。

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意味（1）

(politics, history, chiefly US, offensive) A migrant from the Northern to the Southern States after the American Civil War of 1861–5, especially one who went South to gain political influence.

The carpetbagger remains one of the most enduring symbols of the Reconstruction era. Technically, a carpetbagger was simply a northerner who went South in the wake of the Civil War and took part in Republican Party politics. For most of its lifespan, however, the term has been an epithet, denoting a lowly, immoral northern opportunist, a demagogue who preyed on the defeated South, perverted sectional peace, and rose to power by deceiving African American voters.

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意味（2）

(derogatory, by extension) One who comes to a place or organisation with which they have no previous connection with the sole or primary aim of personal gain, especially political or financial gain.

Though he lived and worked in Los Angeles for sixteen years, the candidate for Attorney General is no carpetbagger; he was born and raised in this state and graduated from the state university.

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carpetbaggers （ plural ）