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To: Knighty Tin who wrote (63547)	8/24/2004 12:02:35 PM
From: Andrew N. Cothran	Read Replies (1) of 793895

Yellow dog is a term reserved for old line Democrats. It is a Southernism and cannot be applied to Republicans of any stripe. It comes from the old southern saying: this dog don't hunt. It seems that an old Democrat, actually the only Democrat left in town, lived in a blue blood section of town made up entirely of Republicans. He had a dog named "Yellow". That dog didn't hunt either. It got around town that the old guy who was the town's only Democrat had a Yellow dog that didn't hunt. So the Republicans started calling him a Yellow Dog Democrat. The title stuck. Now, any old time Southerner who is still a Democrat is referred to by that classic title: Yellow Dog Democrat (whose dogs don't hunt!)

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