carpetbagger
car·pet·bag·ger
noun
1.
an outsider who seeks power or success presumptuously
- “after the Civil War the carpetbaggers from the north tried to take over the south”
Origin
From carpetbag + -er, because many carried their belongings in cheap luggage made from carpet fabric.
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