A§H»GreyGhost wrote:Alabama
In Alabama, Wiggins says scalawags dominated the Republican Party.
South Carolina
In South Carolina there were about 100,000 scalawags, or about 15% of the white population
Louisiana
Wetta shows that New Orleans was a major Scalawag center. Mississippi
The most prominent scalawag of all was James L. Alcorn of Mississippi.
Who were the Scalawags?
White Southern Republicans included formerly closeted Southern abolitionists as well as former slaveowners who supported equal rights for freedmen.
Some of my history books say 20% of the Southern pop was made up of scalawags, others point to 30%.
-Mandalor