People who went to the South looking for political and business opportunities after the Civil War were Northerners and other opportunists called "carpetbaggers," since these people were depicted as arriving in the South with very few supplies of their own.
The fundamental cause of the nation's ill according to populist is that the government is being controlled by rich people, that is why the business of the rich people is improving because they all the power and connection. while the life of the ordinary people are not improving