Pennsylvania Politician -- a carpetbagger!?

[phantasm]

I just had to put this online, somewhere online. I got a political ad in the mail today, accusing a local PA politician of being a carpetbagger.
That is the all-time weirdest smear ad I've seen in my lifetime, and I turned 45 earlier this year.

The slur would make sense somewhere south of the Mason-Dixon line, to my mind. But it doesn't land in my little world.

Maybe there's been a lot of people moving from Maryland or Virginia to PA? I don't keep up with those kinds of numbers.

[anirbas]

carpet-baggers (plural noun)
1. a political candidate who seeks election in an area where they have no local connections.

2. historical
(in the US) a person from the northern states who went to the South after the Civil War to profit from the Reconstruction.

3. a person perceived as an unscrupulous opportunist:
"the organization is rife with carpetbaggers"

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Therefore, the word is usable in any part of the country.