Carpetbagger: Off To The Races!

By MELENA RYZIK, New York Times
Mon, 11/26/2012 - 9:55am

Thanksgiving is over and to Hollywood that means one thing: awards season. Let the Carpetbagger be your guide to all things Oscar.

Sections: movies

Topics: 85th academy awards academy awards oscars thanksgiving

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Carpetbagger, derogatory term originally used in the U.S. during the Reconstruction period (1865–77) to denote a Northerner who moved to the South. It was applied to politicians and financial adventurers whom Southerners accused of coming south to use the newly enfranchised freedmen to obtain office or profit.
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