The Klan targeted newly freed slaves, carpetbaggers and scalawags, and the occupying Union army. And rogues, cads, scalawags, con men, thieves, and scoundrels of all descriptions. Some of these scalawags continued to identify primarily as Whigs as late as the 1890s. The opponents of the scalawags claimed they were disloyal to traditional values. During the 1870s, many scalawags left the Republican Party and joined the conservative-Democrat coalition. In Alabama, Wiggins says scalawags dominated the Republican Party. Eventually most scalawags joined the Democratic Redeemer coalition. Blacks increasingly demanded more and more offices at the expense of the Scalawags. In South Carolina there were about 100,000 scalawags, or about 15% of the white population. Most scalawags "crossed Jordan", as switching to the Democrats was called. The party lost support steadily as many scalawags left it; few recruits were acquired. Historian James Alex Baggett's "The Scalawags" provides a quantitative study of the population. Scalawags were denounced as corrupt by Redeemers. Social pressure eventually forced most Scalawags to join the conservative/Democratic Redeemer coalition. In the South, Scalawags moved into the Democratic Party.