Usually means: Southern whites supporting Reconstruction policies.
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  1. scalawags: Merriam-Webster
  2. scalawags: Collins English Dictionary
  3. scalawags: Vocabulary.com
  4. Scalawags, scalawags: Wordnik
  5. scalawags: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. scalawags: Wiktionary
  7. scalawags: Dictionary.com
  8. scalawags: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Scalawags: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Scalawags: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Definitions from Wiktionary (scalawag)

noun:  (derogatory) A disreputable fellow, a good-for-nothing, a scapegrace, a blackguard.
noun:  (informal) A badly behaved person, especially a child; a mischief-maker; a rascal.
noun:  (derogatory, archaic) A scrawny cow.
noun:  (derogatory, US, archaic or historical) Any white Southerner who supported the federal plan of Reconstruction after the American Civil War or who joined with the black freedmen and the carpetbaggers in support of Republican Party policies.
noun:  (Philippines, law enforcement, military) rogue police; rogue military personnel
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