A "scalawag" if as a Southern born man he votes with the Republicans; a "carpet-bagger" if he comes from the North, no matter how he votes.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 7, 1922] Reference

During that era, the term "scalawag" was used to refer to white Southerners who supported the federal government's actions in the region.    From Wordnik.com.  [Local News from Spartanburg Herald Journal] Reference

Will the scalawag appraisers ever be brought to book?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-05-01] Reference

Fellow-soldier, be a scalawag, be a bashi-bazouk, be a.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 45, July, 1861] Reference

"Pumped three bullets into the scalawag of a lieutenant —".    From Wordnik.com.  [THE PEARLS OF PARLAY] Reference

The Pirate King be more honest than any scalawag desk jockey.    From Wordnik.com.  [Arrrrrrrr. - Moe_Lane’s blog - RedState] Reference

Lock a baffle on yer pie-hole, ye scurvy scalawag, ye scurvey dog!.    From Wordnik.com.  [It’s Talk Like a Pirate Day again!] Reference

"Come out here, you scalawag!" ordered his father, relaxing his hold on.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hiram the Young Farmer] Reference

And then came coyote so crafty and clever, a scalawag all the way through.    From Wordnik.com.  [Them Stars] Reference

As a matter of fact, End of Time, that scalawag, placed a comparable taboo on me.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates]

Scully is a scalawag, but intensely unsympathetic—the opposite of Heinlein's rogues.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Specter is Haunting Texas] Reference

Besides these there was a hard-looking old scalawag, who kept his business all to himself.    From Wordnik.com.  [Buffalo Roost] Reference

That Phil Gramm is such a wascally scalawag, he's blaming us for what his party did to us.    From Wordnik.com.  [McCain Campaign Distances Itself From Gramm's "Nation Of Whiners" Comment] Reference

A subsidence followed, and the scalawag-carpetbag-Negro governments began a fresh existence.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1880. Vol. 2 (of 2) Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens] Reference

Professor Silver wryly concedes some doubt whether he qualifies as a carpetbagger or a scalawag.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Southern Conscience] Reference

And that young scalawag of a Joe Vickers is editing the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rainbow Valley] Reference

I gotta go for tonite, but I see a certain scalawag lurking.    From Wordnik.com.  [Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local] Reference

There's nothing the matter with that scalawag, I assure you.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Awakening of Helena Richie] Reference

I was without reverence for her age -- not a man -- a scalawag.    From Wordnik.com.  [It, and Other Stories] Reference

He had with entire reason attacked a certain scalawag of a Roman.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Gray Dawn] Reference

"An 'wot you t'ink dat young scalawag ob a clerk gib her?" chuckled.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Corner House Girls at School] Reference

The old scalawag just closed his eyes and put on one of the softest.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Land That Time Forgot] Reference

"Kit, where is the knife that scalawag was going to cut the rope with?".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Young Acrobat of the Great North American Circus] Reference

"A scalawag, and a bad one!" commented Mr. Briggs, closing his note-book.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Landloper] Reference

I ran off to sea soon after they were married, like the young scalawag I was.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anne's House of Dreams] Reference

'If ever anything of this sort happens to you, you young scalawag,' he says to.    From Wordnik.com.  [Something New] Reference

He's a scalawag, of course, but unhappily for all of us he is a scalawag with a pull.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Honorable Senator Sage-Brush] Reference

"And to think of that scalawag, making a loan right in your face, after you had vetoed it.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Desert Fiddler] Reference

"And when did I ever talk to you about the quality, you scalawag?" asks the Colonel, laughing.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Crisis — Volume 02] Reference

Every one will recall his saying that he was a mere poetic scalawag in comparison with Goethe.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller] Reference