What is ... "Carpet Bagger"?
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Re: What is ... "Carpet Bagger"?
by EvilCat Breath Thu Dec 30, 2021 12:38 pm
According to my Jewish grandmother whose family lived in Georgia and were proud members of the Confederacy, a carpet bagger was a damn Yankee too poor to afford decent luggage. They came south to buy up land for pennies on back taxes. They carried their worldly goods in valises made of carpet.
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Re: What is ... "Carpet Bagger"?
by HawkTheSlayer Thu Dec 30, 2021 12:43 pm
EvilCat Breath wrote:According to my Jewish grandmother whose family lived in Georgia and were proud members of the Confederacy, a carpet bagger was a damn Yankee too poor to afford decent luggage. They came south to buy up land for pennies on back taxes. They carried their worldly goods in valises made of carpet.
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