Date:    Fri, 13 Feb 1998 13:03:43 -0500
<br>From:    Larry Horn  laurence.horn[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]YALE.EDU 
<br>Subject: Re: Yellow dog Democrats
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<br>At 12:43 PM -0500 2/13/98, Gregory {Greg} Downing wrote:
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<br> "Yellow dog democrat" I have no cites handy on, but some time in the 80s I
<br> read something that asserted it came from the idea of someone (especially in
<br> the South, when the South was pretty overwhelmingly Democrat, i.e., 1860s to
<br> 1940s) who was so strictly a Democrat voter that s/he'd vote Democrat if the
<br> party ran a yellow dog for office. I.e., a very loyal and/or very partisan
<br> Democrat, esp. in the South.
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<br>That's the sense I'm familiar with--someone who would vote for EVEN a
<br>yellow dog that ran on the Democratic ticket.  Them was the days.  Then
<br>there are the boll-weevils.
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<br>Larry
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