Difference between Rapscallion and Scalawag

RAPSCALLION vs SCALAWAG: NOUN

One who is playfully mischievous
A rascal; a scamp.
A rascally, disorderly, or despicable person; a wretch or vagabond; a rascallion.
A rascal; a good-for-nothing fellow.
A rascal, scamp, rogue, or scoundrel.
Roguish, disreputable.
A deceitful and unreliable scoundrel

White Southerner supporting Reconstruction policies after the Civil War usually for self-interest
One who is playfully mischievous
A reprobate; a rascal.
A white Southerner working for or supporting the federal government during Reconstruction.
An under-sized, scraggy, or ill-fed animal of little value.
A worthless, good-for-nothing, or contemptible fellow; a scamp; a scapegrace.
A scamp; a scapegrace.
Any white Southerner who supported the federal plan of Reconstruction after the Civil War or who joined with the black freedmen and the carpetbaggers in support of Republican Party policies.
A rascal. Alternative spelling of scallywag.
A deceitful and unreliable scoundrel

Hellion, Hoodlum, Ruffian, Lowlife, Reprobate, Scoundrel, Varlet, Monkey, Rogue, Imp, Knave, Scamp, Rascal, Scalawag, Scallywag

Freebooter, Lowlife, Ruffian, Blackguard, Reprobate, Dude, Varlet, Imp, Monkey, Knave, Scamp, Rogue, Rascal, Scallywag, Rapscallion

Wastrel, Hellion, Hoodlum, Ruffian, Lowlife, Reprobate, Scoundrel, Monkey, Rogue, Imp, Knave, Scamp, Rascal, Scalawag, Scallywag

Renegade, Freebooter, Lowlife, Ruffian, Blackguard, Reprobate, Dude, Imp, Monkey, Knave, Scamp, Rogue, Rascal, Scallywag, Rapscallion

Spanish Moss, and restored with architecture that now houses craft breweries and museums rather than rapscallion aristocrats.
Paul Giamatti as a rapscallion of a crime novelist with an immense appetite for life.
Jacker, the allegedly prolific assassin, and turns him into a roughhousing rapscallion.
Behind every rascal, lurks a pair of rapscallion parents.

The scalawag was the native white man who made up the middle class of the South; the planter above, the Negro below.
Her work can be found in INDY Week and Scalawag Magazine, as well as on her blog, Courtney Has Words.
Scalawag will solicit questions via mail and text message about specific challenges readers are facing and offer responses directly and online.
Scalawag and Igor search the shores frantically and spot Pinocchio lying face down in the sand.
That's the sloth that turns the whole drug heartbreak of their scalawag to it.
They went directly to the Surgeon General to tell him what a scalawag Frode Jensen was.
He, on the other hand, is a gentleman and a scalawag.
So, where do you fit in this rigging, you swashbuckling scalawag?
She is somewhere in the end stage of scalawag osborne.