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"Scalawags" was the name among the following choices given in the question that the Democrats gave Southerners who became Republicans. The correct option among all the options that are given in the question is the third option or option "C". I hope that this is the answer that has actually come to your help.

Answer:

C. Scalawags

Explanation:

White southern Republicans, referred to their adversaries as "scalawags," made up the greatest gathering of agents to the Radical Reconstruction-era legislatures. A few scalawags were established planters who felt that whites ought to perceive blacks' considerate and political rights while as yet holding control of political and economic life.

Many were previous Whigs who saw the Republicans as the successors to their old party. Most of the scalawags were non-slaveholding small farmers as well as merchants, artisans and other experts who had stayed faithful to the Union amid the Civil War.