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The Carolina Dog's wildness and its ginger coat led to its being called a "yaller dog", which in turn may have led to the expression "yellow dog Democrat". [1] Yellow dog Democrats is a political term that was applied to voters in the Southern United States who voted solely for candidates who represented the Democratic Party. The term ...
In his 1920 run for one of Georgia's seats in the United States Senate, Thomas E. Watson was denounced by the Valdosta Times newspaper as a "Democrat in name only.". [3] When William DeWitt Mitchell was appointed United States Attorney General in 1928 by President Herbert Hoover, the Chicago Tribune described Mitchell as a "Democrat in name only," arguing that "his record of the last few years ...
These voters supported conservative Democrats for local and statewide office while simultaneously voting for Republican presidential candidates. For example, Kent Hance defeated future president George W. Bush in the 1978 midterms. [22] They were sometimes humorously called "Yellow dog Democrats", or "boll weevils" and "Dixiecrats". According ...
As a dog returns to his vomit, so a fool repeats his folly" is an aphorism which appears in the Book of Proverbs in the Bible — Proverbs 26:11 (Hebrew: כְּ֭כֶלֶב שָׁ֣ב עַל־קֵאֹ֑ו כְּ֝סִ֗יל שֹׁונֶ֥ה בְאִוַּלְתֹּֽו Kəḵeleḇ šāḇ ‘al-qê’ōw; kəsîl, šōwneh ḇə’iwwaltōw.
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Men have been falling behind in education and wages. The Harris campaign’s solution was to go all in on abortion and assume she could girl boss their way through the campaign.
The Anti-Yellow Dog Clubs (also referred to as The Yellow Dog Clubbers Club) [1] were American anti-seditionist clubs during World War I inspired by Henry Irving Dodge's story "The Yellow Dog", [2] which first appeared in The Saturday Evening Post on March 4, 1918.
Black men opted for Trump by about 21%, while black women backed him at 7%, with 12% of black supporters voting for him overall — up from 8% eight years prior, according to Edison Research.