| 单词 | yellow-dog democrat |
| 释义 | > as lemmasyellow-dog Democrat b. U.S. Politics. attributive with the sense ‘of, relating to, displaying, or characterized by extreme party loyalty, esp. of a kind in which political candidates are voted for regardless of their qualifications or experience. In later use esp. with reference to the Democratic Party, esp. in yellow-dog Democrat.With reference to the sentiment that some voters are so loyal that they will vote for a yellow dog if it is on the ticket (see, e.g., quots. 1880 and 1883 at sense 2). ΚΠ 1883 Allegany County (Wellsville, N.Y.) Reporter 1 Nov. 1/4 The little ‘yellow dog’ newspapers of the county. 1885 St. Louis (Missouri) Globe-Democrat 3 Mar. 3/2 I..allway vote the democratic tickett straight and if there is A yellow dog or A Comanchee Indian on the Bottom of the tickett I vote for them two I am called the yellow dog democrat of Cole county. 1886 Los Angeles Daily Times 8 Sept. The Express and the bosses say: ‘You must vote for the bad man because we say so.’ The Times, however, has not yet reached the ‘yellow-dog’ stage. 1905 D. G. Phillips Plum Tree 204 He could not carry a single state in the East where there are any large centerings of capital or enterprise—not even our yellow-dog states. 1941 T. Wallace in H. L. Ickes Freedom of Press Today 254 Much greater disservice was that of yellow-dog newspapers, long ago, which saw no evil or error in their man—because he was their man. 1982 Austin (Texas) Amer.-Statesman 15 Apr. 88/1 The blacks, the browns, the white liberals and the Yellow Dog Democrats. 2001 New Republic (Nexis) 11 June 8 At the point where it actually makes a difference, politics is not merely about lofty principles or yellow-dog partisanship. 2013 St. Louis (Missouri) Post-Dispatch (Nexis) 12 May a17 [He] describes himself as the last ‘left-leaning yellow-dog white Democrat in the state of Mississippi’. < as lemmas |
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