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In Alabama, Wiggins says scalawags dominated the Republican Party.

Some 117 Republicans were nominated, elected, or appointed to the most lucrative and important state executive positions, judgeships, and federal legislative and judicial offices between 1868 and 1881.

They included 76 white southerners, 35 northerners, and 6 former slaves.

In state offices during Reconstruction, white southerners were even more predominant: 51 won nominations, compared to 11 carpetbaggers and one black.

27 scalawags won state executive nominations ( 75 %), 24 won state judicial nominations ( 89 %), and 101 were elected to the Alabama General Assembly ( 39 %).

However, fewer scalawags won nominations to federal offices: 15 were nominated or elected to Congress ( 48 %) compared to 11 carpetbaggers and 5 blacks.

48 scalawags were members of the 1867 constitutional convention ( 49. 5 % of the Republican membership ); and seven scalawags were members of the 1875 constitutional convention ( 58 % of the minuscule Republican membership.