Melanie Goux, over at brushstroke.tv calls herself, in passing, a "yellow-dog feminist." Does anybody know the origin of the "yellow-dog" phrase? Google isn't too much help, as a PowerPC distribution of linux is called Yellow Dog and that seems to soak up most of the hits (although I'll admit to not going through all 72,700 matches.) Anyway, I've heard it used in the phrase "yellow-dog democrat" which, as I remember, refers to someone who would vote the party line even if a yellow dog was on the ticket. But where does this come from? I don't think the 'yellow' is related to cowardliness, but maybe. Where would you search for something like this?
guess you had to add "democrat" to your search query
That sounds like a sanitized story. As defined here (scroll down), the term goes back to post civil war enmities. (OK, it’s college hijinks, but I think the point about reconstruction is accurate.) A yellow dog contract disallows unions, and this fiction author says a yellow dog is an object of contempt out west, (though he doesn’t know why), so the answer to Jim’s question is obviously...well, I’m still not really sure, but I did find this site Bill might like...
A Mormon dog is an empty tin can partly filled with pebbles &,presumably, used in lieu
of a real canine barker. Orin Hatch, the primate of apostalic Utah, used his to scare Bob Dole.
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- jim 11-08-2001 10:06 pm
guess you had to add "democrat" to your search query
- dave 11-09-2001 12:11 am
That sounds like a sanitized story. As defined here (scroll down), the term goes back to post civil war enmities. (OK, it’s college hijinks, but I think the point about reconstruction is accurate.) A yellow dog contract disallows unions, and this fiction author says a yellow dog is an object of contempt out west, (though he doesn’t know why), so the answer to Jim’s question is obviously...well, I’m still not really sure, but I did find this site Bill might like...
- alex 11-09-2001 6:13 am
A Mormon dog is an empty tin can partly filled with pebbles &,presumably, used in lieu
of a real canine barker. Orin Hatch, the primate of apostalic Utah, used his to scare Bob Dole.
- frank 12-25-2001 11:38 pm