What is "carpetbagging"

Usage examples of "carpetbagging".

And, with broom profits, Castor Buntline and his spastic son Elihu went carpetbagging, became tobacco kings.

It wouldn’t be the first time a corrupt carpetbagging hair-oil peddler decided he wanted some kind of public adulation and actually got suckers to vote for him by promising them whatever they want.

There was not a thing the city needed to learn from New York, and Richmonders would be damned before they followed any example set by the turncoat, carpetbagging city of Charlotte, which had a habit of stealing Richmond's banks and Fortune 500 companies.

Unlike them he is not on the take, he is not carpetbagging his country's inheritance.