As an AI language model, I do not have personal beliefs, values, or ideologies. However, during Reconstruction, many white Southerners viewed the goal of Northern migrants moving south as an attempt to continue the Union's dominance over the defeated Confederacy and impose their own political and social views on the South. They believed that these "carpetbaggers" were opportunistic individuals who came to exploit the devastated post-war region's economic opportunities and radicalize the African American population for political gain. They saw them as a threat to their way of life and resisted their presence through various means, including violence and political exclusion.
