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Encyclopedia - List Of Political Epithets: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Political Epithets - Carpetbagger
Post-American Civil War U.S.: Original usage by white Southerners for the Northerners that came south after the Civil War, viewed as "car...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Political Epithets: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Political Epithets - Carpetbagger
Post-American Civil War U.S.: Original usage by white Southerners for the Northerners that came south after the Civil War, viewed as "car...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Political Epithets: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Political Epithets - Carpetbagger
Post-American Civil War U.S.: Original usage by white Southerners for the Northerners that came south after the Civil War, viewed as "car...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Carpetbagger: Encyclopedia - Carpetbagger
In the United States, the term carpetbagger was an epithet used to refer to Northern (Yankee) businessmen and politicians who moved to th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Carpetbagger: Encyclopedia Ii - Carpetbagger - Northerners In The South During Reconstruction
Early 20th Century American historians, many of them Southern in origin or sympathy, tended to view carpetbaggers unfavorably, assuming �...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Carpetbagger: Encyclopedia Ii - Carpetbagger - Northerners In The South During Reconstruction
Early 20th Century American historians, many of them Southern in origin or sympathy, tended to view carpetbaggers unfavorably, assuming �...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Carpetbagger: Encyclopedia Ii - Carpetbagger - Northerners In The South During Reconstruction
Early 20th Century American historians, many of them Southern in origin or sympathy, tended to view carpetbaggers unfavorably, assuming �...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Reconstruction: Encyclopedia Ii - Reconstruction - The Failure Of Reconstruction
Reconstruction nevertheless continued until 1877, when the contentious Presidential election was decided in favor of Rutherford B. Hayes,...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Scalawag: Encyclopedia Ii - Scalawag - Motives Of Scalawags
A simple definition of a scalawag is a white Southern Republican. White Southern Republicans included formerly closeted Southern abolitio...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Reconstruction: Encyclopedia Ii - Reconstruction - The End Of Reconstruction
Reconstruction nevertheless continued until 1877, when the contentious Presidential election was decided in favor of Rutherford B. Hayes,...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Reconstruction: Encyclopedia Ii - Reconstruction - The Constitutional Amendments
The 13th, 14th, and 15th Constitutional Amendments were adopted in the wake of the Civil War. The 13th abolished slavery, the 14th grante...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Reconstruction: Encyclopedia Ii - Reconstruction - Historiography
The effectiveness of Reconstruction has been very hotly contested. From about 1900 to 1960, the dominant opinion of the Dunning School ar...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Reconstruction: Encyclopedia Ii - Reconstruction - Military Reconstruction
The first Reconstruction Act divided ten Confederate states (all except Tennessee, which had been readmitted on July 24, 1866) into five ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Reconstruction: Encyclopedia Ii - Reconstruction - Plans And Legislation
Abraham Lincoln had endorsed a lenient plan for reconstruction, which continued the Freedman's Bureau and allowed Black war veterans to v...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Yankee: Encyclopedia - Yankee
The term Yankee has a variety of meanings. Generally, it refers to citizens of the United States, particularly northerners, especially th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Reconstruction: Encyclopedia Ii - Reconstruction - Military Reconstruction
The first Reconstruction Act divided ten Confederate states (all except Tennessee, which had been readmitted on July 24, 1866) into five ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Reconstruction: Encyclopedia Ii - Reconstruction - Plans And Legislation
Planning for Reconstruction began in 1861. The so-called Radical Republicans, seeking harsh policies, used as their base the Congressiona...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Reconstruction: Encyclopedia Ii - Reconstruction - Legacy Of Reconstruction
The legacy of Reconstruction was initially viewed as a failure. Following Reconstruction and the perpetuation of segregation, the romanti...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Scalawag: Encyclopedia Ii - Scalawag - Role And Definition
Scalawags played an important role in Reconstruction, but historians have tended to focus more on carpetbaggers, freedmen, and the Ku Klu...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Ethnic Slurs: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Ethnic Slurs - M
Minnesotan accent, where vowels are usually elongated. Minoplis (Dominican Republic) Very dark-skinned Dominicans or all Haitians, deriv...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Ethnic Slurs: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Ethnic Slurs - M
Minnesotan accent, where vowels are usually elongated. Minoplis (Dominican Republic) Very dark-skinned Dominicans or all Haitians, deriv...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Demutualization: Encyclopedia Ii - Demutualization - Examples
Demutualization - Security exchanges. The Chicago Mercantile Exchange became a shareholder-owned corporation in 2000 through a public o...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Yankee: Encyclopedia Ii - Yankee - History
Yankee - Origins. Other origins of the term are disputed. One theory customarily held by persons not from New England claims that it or...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Redneck: Encyclopedia Ii - Redneck - History
“Rednecks” are largely descendants of the Ulster-Scots and Lowland Scots immigrants who travelled to North America from Northern Irel...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Words Meaning Outsider Foreigner Or "not One Of Us": Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Words Meaning Outsider Foreigner Or "not One Of Us" - Lists By Originator
List of words meaning outsider foreigner or "not one of us" - List by nation ethnicity or religion. Alaska: Cheechako Ancien...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Political Epithets: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Political Epithets - Bible Basher Or Bible Thumper
Someone who tries in a forceful or enthusiastic way to persuade other people to believe in the Christian religion and the Bible. An evang...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Political Epithets: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Political Epithets - Bible Basher Or Bible Thumper
Someone who tries in a forceful or enthusiastic way to persuade other people to believe in the Christian religion and the Bible. An evang...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Political Epithets: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Political Epithets - Bible Basher Or Bible Thumper
Someone who tries in a forceful or enthusiastic way to persuade other people to believe in the Christian religion and the Bible. An evang...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Operations And Projects Military And Non-military: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Operations And Projects Military And Non-military - Operations
List of operations and projects military and non-military - World War I. Albion (1917) — German capture of Oesel, Dago and Moon Isla...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Demutualization: Encyclopedia Ii - Demutualization - Examples
Demutualization - Security exchanges. The Chicago Mercantile Exchange became a shareholder-owned corporation in 2000 through a public o...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Political Epithets: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Political Epithets - Islamofascism
A term used to suggest that certain variants of Islamist extremism have fascist or totalitarian aspects. Proponents claim that various Is...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Political Epithets: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Political Epithets - Jewnazi Judeofascist Judeo-nazi Zionazi
Terms used by particularly vocal opponents of Israel and Zionism and some anti-Semites [14] [15] [16] [17][18] [19] [20] who advocate the...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Political Epithets: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Political Epithets - Hitler
Used by virtually all sides of all debates with the hope of discrediting opposing viewpoints. For example, with regards to the 2003 invas...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Political Epithets: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Political Epithets - Montagnards
France: Term for the extreme left of France. The name is derived from their seats on the Legislative Assembly in Revolutionary France. Th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Political Epithets: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Political Epithets - Gang Of ....
U.S.: The term Gang of .... (insert number) refers to the Gang of Four, close associates of Mao, who ruled the People's Republic of China...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Political Epithets: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Political Epithets - The Man
North America: A term associated with the counterculture and used to describe higher authority. This "Man" does not usually refer to a sp...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Political Epithets: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Political Epithets - Young Turk
A young usurper; but more commonly in current usage refers to a younger person within a corporate environment or government pushing for m...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Political Epithets: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Political Epithets - Moonbat
Moonbat is a political epithet coined in 2002 by Perry de Havilland of Samizdata.net a libertarian weblog. It was originally a play on th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Political Epithets: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Political Epithets - Uncle Tom
U.S.: an African American whose political views or allegiances are labeled by critics as detrimental to black Americans as a group. This ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Political Epithets: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Political Epithets - Troika
Historical Russian term for secret tribunals no longer in operation within the Russian system of jurisprudence. In Soviet times, these tr...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Political Epithets: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Political Epithets - Tory And Whig
UK & CAN: Originally the Whigs were proponents of, and Tories the opponents of, moves to exclude the future King James II of England ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Political Epithets: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Political Epithets - Bolshevik Bolshevism
U.S.: Derogatory term applied to members of the far left. It implies a connection with Communism, particularly the Russian variety. The p...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Political Epithets: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Political Epithets - Champagne Socialist
UK: The phrase refers to politicians who are perceived as having socialist tendencies in their political views and policies but disregard...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Political Epithets: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Political Epithets - Fiberals
CAN: A derisive term for the Ontario Liberal Party government under Premier Dalton McGuinty, who were widely judged to have broken a grea...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Political Epithets: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Political Epithets - Feminazi
U.S.: Feminazi is a term made popular by conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh to refer to women for whom "the most important thing in li...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Political Epithets: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Political Epithets - Fellow Traveller
People who "walked part of the way" with Communist parties, without actually joining those parties, and without sharing all the watchword...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Political Epithets: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Political Epithets - Chauvinist Pig
Used to describe a man as having a prejudiced belief in the superiority of his own gender; often extended to describe a man as one who ha...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Political Epithets: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Political Epithets - Fifth Column Fifth Columnist
Global: Term for a group of people who clandestinely undermines from within a larger group to which it is expected to be loyal, such as a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Political Epithets: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Political Epithets - Revisionist
Marxist term, describing those who support a different variety of Marxism than the person using the term. Among historians, revisionism h...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Redneck: Encyclopedia Ii - Redneck - Etymology
Redneck - Possible Scots-Irish Etymology. The word redneck was first cited in Scotland. In Scotland, the National Covenant and The Sole...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Political Epithets: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Political Epithets - Young Turk
A young usurper; but more commonly in current usage refers to a younger person within a corporate environment or government pushing for m...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Political Epithets: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Political Epithets - Uncle Tom
U.S.: an African American whose political views or allegiances are labeled by critics as detrimental to black Americans as a group. This ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Political Epithets: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Political Epithets - Troika
Historical Russian term for secret tribunals no longer in operation within the Russian system of jurisprudence. In Soviet times, these tr...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Redneck: Encyclopedia Ii - Redneck - Modern Usage
"Redneck", like the word nigger, has two general uses: firstly, as a pejorative for outsiders, and secondly as a term used by members wit...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Redneck: Encyclopedia Ii - Redneck - Stereotypes
The stereotypical redneck lives in a trailer or old weatherbeaten farm house in a rural area, and drives an old, large, beat-up pickup tr...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Redneck: Encyclopedia Ii - Redneck - Related Terms
Redneck - Australia. The term "Redneck" is also often used in Australia to describe individuals of Anglo-Celtic heritage living in rura...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Redneck: Encyclopedia Ii - Redneck - Extraterritorial Conclaves
There are also several areas where large groups of Rednecks live outside of their normal ranges. One is Bakersfield, California and the s...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Redneck: Encyclopedia Ii - Redneck - Popular Culture
The Grand Ole Opry, and Hee Haw are popular entertainments from years past, and they, as well as the entertainers Hank Williams, Grandpa ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Political Epithets: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Political Epithets - Tory And Whig
UK & CAN: Originally the Whigs were proponents of, and Tories the opponents of, moves to exclude the future King James II of England ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Political Epithets: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Political Epithets - Smoke And Mirrors
A derogatory term for political policies and/or programs that are allegedly based on trickery or illusion. It is also used to suggest tha...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Political Epithets: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Political Epithets - Radical
Originally part of an analogy with the roots of a plant (Latin: Radix), in Britain in the 1830s it referred to those who wanted to change...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Political Epithets: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Political Epithets - Pinko
Used to refer to a person allegedly sympathetic to a Communist Party and/or the Soviet Union during the Cold War but not an outright Comm...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Political Epithets: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Political Epithets - Peoples' Republic Of California
U.S.: Used by conservatives in California to describe the state itself, known for being liberal-leaning, or certain smaller cities in Cal...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Political Epithets: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Political Epithets - Radical Republican
Derogatory term applied to the supporters of Abraham Lincoln and the Republican Party by pro-slavery Democrats in the early 1860s; also u...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Political Epithets: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Political Epithets - Randroid
This is a pejorative term for the followers of Ayn Rand's philosophy of Objectivism. It is a portmanteau of Rand's name with the word and...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Political Epithets: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Political Epithets - Smoke And Mirrors
A derogatory term for political policies and/or programs that are allegedly based on trickery or illusion. It is also used to suggest tha...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Political Epithets: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Political Epithets - Republicrat Big Business Party
Used by opponents to indicate their belief that the U.S. Democratic Party and U.S. Republican Party are very similar to each other. Same ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Political Epithets: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Political Epithets - Red
Used to describe communists, or people and institutions believed to be communist, or people and institutions seen as supporting communism...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Political Epithets: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Political Epithets - Neoconservative Neocon
U.S.: When many prominent members of the George W. Bush administration were identified as neoconservatives by the press, the terms "neoco...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Political Epithets: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Political Epithets - Moonbat
Moonbat is a political epithet coined in 2002 by Perry de Havilland of Samizdata.net a libertarian weblog. It was originally a play on th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Political Epithets: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Political Epithets - Radical
Originally part of an analogy with the roots of a plant (Latin: Raddix), in Britain in the 1830s it referred to those who wanted to chang...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Political Epithets: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Political Epithets - Radical Republican
Derogatory term applied to the supporters of Abraham Lincoln and the Republican Party by pro-slavery Democrats in the early 1860s; also u...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Political Epithets: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Political Epithets - Pinko
Used to refer to a person allegedly sympathetic to a Communist Party and/or the Soviet Union during the Cold War but not an outright Comm...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Political Epithets: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Political Epithets - Peoples' Republic Of California
U.S.: Used by conservatives in California to describe the state itself, known for being liberal-leaning, or certain smaller cities in Cal...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Political Epithets: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Political Epithets - Neoconservative Neocon
U.S.: When many prominent members of the George W. Bush administration were identified as neoconservatives by the press, the terms "neoco...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Political Epithets: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Political Epithets - Randroid
This is a pejorative term for the followers of Ayn Rand's philosophy of Objectivism. It is a portmanteau of Rand's name with the word and...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Political Epithets: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Political Epithets - Red
Used to describe communists, or people and institutions believed to be communist, or people and institutions seen as supporting communism...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Political Epithets: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Political Epithets - Revisionist
Marxist term, describing those who support a different variety of Marxism than the person using the term. Among historians, revisionism h...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Political Epithets: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Political Epithets - Smoke And Mirrors
A derogatory term for political policies and/or programs that are allegedly based on trickery or illusion. It is also used to suggest tha...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Political Epithets: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Political Epithets - Revisionist
Marxist term, describing those who support a different variety of Marxism than the person using the term. Among historians, revisionism h...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Political Epithets: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Political Epithets - Republicrat Big Business Party
Used by opponents to indicate their belief that the U.S. Democratic Party and U.S. Republican Party are very similar to each other. Same ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Political Epithets: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Political Epithets - Moonbat
Moonbat is a political epithet coined in 2002 by Perry de Havilland of Samizdata.net a libertarian weblog. It was originally a play on th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Political Epithets: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Political Epithets - Montagnards
France: Term for the extreme left of France. The name is derived from their seats on the Legislative Assembly in Revolutionary France. Th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Political Epithets: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Political Epithets - Feminazi
U.S.: Feminazi is a term made popular by conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh to refer to women for whom "the most important thing in li...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Political Epithets: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Political Epithets - Chauvinist Pig
Used to describe a man as having a prejudiced belief in the superiority of his own gender; often extended to describe a man as one who ha...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Political Epithets: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Political Epithets - Champagne Socialist
UK: The phrase refers to politicians who are perceived as having socialist tendencies in their political views and policies but disregard...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Political Epithets: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Political Epithets - Bolshevik Bolshevism
U.S.: Derogatory term applied to members of the far left. It implies a connection with Communism, particularly the Russian variety. The p...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Political Epithets: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Political Epithets - Fiberals
CAN: A derisive term for the Ontario Liberal Party government under Premier Dalton McGuinty, who were widely judged to have broken a grea...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Political Epithets: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Political Epithets - Fifth Column Fifth Columnist
Global: Term for a group of people who clandestinely undermines from within, a larger group to which it is expected to be loyal, such as ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Political Epithets: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Political Epithets - The Man
North America: A term associated with the counterculture and used to describe higher authority. This "Man" does not usually refer to a sp...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Political Epithets: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Political Epithets - Jewnazi Judeofascist Judeo-nazi Zionazi
Terms used by particularly vocal opponents of Israel and Zionism and some anti-Semites [14] [15] [16] [17][18] [19] [20] who advocate the...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Political Epithets: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Political Epithets - Islamofascism
A term used to suggest that certain variants of Islamist extremism have fascist or totalitarian aspects. Proponents claim that various Is...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Political Epithets: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Political Epithets - Hitler
Used by virtually all sides of all debates with the hope of discrediting opposing viewpoints. For example, with regards to the 2003 invas...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Political Epithets: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Political Epithets - Troika
Historical Russian term for secret tribunals no longer in operation within the Russian system of jurisprudence. In Soviet times, these tr...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Political Epithets: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Political Epithets - Tory And Whig
UK & CAN: Originally the Whigs were proponents of, and Tories the opponents of, moves to exclude the future King James II of England ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Political Epithets: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Political Epithets - Peoples' Republic Of California
U.S.: Used by conservatives in California to describe the state itself, known for being liberal-leaning, or certain smaller cities in Cal...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Political Epithets: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Political Epithets - Neoconservative Neocon
U.S.: When many prominent members of the George W. Bush administration were identified as neoconservatives by the press, the terms "neoco...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Political Epithets: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Political Epithets - Montagnards
France: Term for the extreme left of France. The name is derived from their seats on the Legislative Assembly in Revolutionary France. Th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Political Epithets: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Political Epithets - Uncle Tom
U.S.: an African American whose political views or allegiances are labeled by critics as detrimental to black Americans as a group. This ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Political Epithets: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Political Epithets - Pinko
Used to refer to a person allegedly sympathetic to a Communist Party and/or the Soviet Union during the Cold War but not an outright Comm...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Political Epithets: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Political Epithets - Radical
Originally part of an analogy with the roots of a plant (Latin: Radix), in Britain in the 1830s it referred to those who wanted to change...   » Read the article