Carpetbaggin' Backlash

In United States history, carpetbaggers was the term southerners gave to northerners who moved to the South during the Reconstruction era, between 1865 and 1877. They formed a coalition with freedmen (freed slaves), and scalawags (southern whites who supported Reconstruction) in the Republican Party. Together they politically controlled former Confederate states for varying periods, 1867–1877.

The term carpetbaggers was used to describe the white northern Republican politicians who came South, arriving with their travel carpetbags. Southerners considered them ready to loot and plunder the defeated South.[1] Although the term is still an insult in common usage, in histories and reference works it is now used without derogatory intent.

--Wikipedia

Funny how things turn around over time. Like how it's trendy in some circles to compare recent Israeli governments with mid-20th Century NAZI activities.

Over at the OpenCongress website they have a clever voting trends analysis section that reports:

Rep. Jeffrey Fortenberry Voting Trends Analysis
The information below is an initial analysis of voting trends for this Member of Congress, calculated by cross-referencing all of this member's votes from the 110th Congress (Jan. 2007 - Dec. 2008). The results are intended to offer some helpful context for the place that this Member of Congress occupies in the Congressional landscape. In the next steps of site development, OpenCongress will incorporate more detailed analyses of voting trends to give you a comprehensive snapshot of every Member of Congress.

# Most often votes with: Rep. Charles Boustany [R, LA-7]

Aww, isn't that cute; they're like brothers!

Remind me sometime to tell the story about how a young Louisiana Republican wannabe with nice hair moves North to join the Republican War on Science and Other Stuff. It's American Dream meets American Idol.