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 "Scalawags"

After the U.S. Civil War,

South Reconstruction caused a lot

Of nasty name calling and more.

"Scalawags" was a term that got

Tagged to white Republicans who

Supported the Reconstruction.

Southern Democrats thought them true

Traitors to the principle one

That there be white supremacy

Kept maintained at whatever cost,

And blamed that the "scalawags" be

The main reason the war was lost.

Term "scalawags" long did affix

To U.S. southern politics.