Lincoln and Hamlin?

[Wild Bill]

Laurie, historian David Donald showed way back in the 1940s that the scalawags, i.e., Southerners who supported Reconstruction, were very often the educated classes of the South, and his notion has been supported over the years by many others. Even Carpetbaggers have been shown as idealists as much as scum. Reconstruction is very complicated and the old stereotypes have to be taken with a grain of salt. There is a lot more spin than history of the era.