Yellow Dog Meaning

(US, politics, uncommon) Shortening of yellow dog Democrat.

Example: Used other than as an idiom: see yellow,‎ dog.
1877, Charles White; Andrew J. Leavitt, The coming man: an Ethiopian sketch in two scenes, page 5:
  If I had a woman like that I'd trade her off for a yellow dog and then shoot the dog.
1897, John Jay Chapman, editor, The Political nursery, volume 1:10 - 4:10:
  A respectable class of candidates for minor state offices, and for state senate and assembly, at this moment desire to run on the ticket with Roosevelt. As soon as there is a third ticket in the field no one but a yellow dog will consent to run on Platt's ticket.
2011, William Earl Maxwell, Ernest Crain, Adolfo Santos, Texas Politics Today: 2011-2012 Edition, page 125:
  What led Rick Perry to pronounce the Yellow Dogs dead?

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