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Southerners who wanted Democratic control of southern governments were known as what?

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White southern Republicans, known to their enemies as “scalawags

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In general, the southern state governments formed during this period of Reconstruction represented a coalition of African Americans, recently arrived northern whites (“carpetbaggers”) and southern white Republicans (“scalawags”).

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