Countable noun 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.
Define carpetbagger.
A politician who takes up residence in a place and runs for office without having strong ties to the area.
A northerner who went to the south after the civil war and became active in republican politics especially so as to profiteer from the unsettled social and political conditions of the area during reconstruction.
Carpetbagger definition is a northerner in the south after the american civil war usually seeking private gain under the reconstruction governments.
Someone who tries to be elected as a politician in a place away from their home because they.
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Carpetbagger an outsider who seeks power or success presumptuously.