Can someone explain to me what a "yellow dog democrat" is?

[Reverend_Smitty]

Any explanations? thanks!

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

1. Sure, goes back a few years. It was used to describe someone

who would vote for a yellow dog, as long as it was a Democrat.

[kanrok]

2. It means

that you would vote for a yellow dog over a republican.

[DemBones DemBones]

3. So devoted to the party that if the Democrats ran a yellow dog, you'd vote

for it.

[dogman]

4. Me

[NWHarkness]

5. Someone who is so loyal

That they would vote for a yellow dog if the Democrats ran one.

[TexasProgresive]

ME

Ahl vote for eny ole yeller dawg-long as he's a Demmicrat.

A southern term- not many of us left south of the Mason-Dixon line

[Fridays Child]

6. Such a dyed-in-the-wool Democrat that, if a yellow dog ran...

...for office as a Democrat, you'd vote for it. :)

[Reverend_Smitty]

7. Thanks guys

:yourock:

[bigwillq]

8. Kinda like the ham sandwich theory

Hey, I want the slogan to be "Ham sandwich democrat"!!

[nickgutierrez]

16. I like it

:D

[MikeG]

9. A Pennsylvania Democrat - after Santorum has had his way with him.

[DeadHead67]

10. I like new definition of 'Santorum', as in Savage Love*.

(*Savage Love, written by Dan Savage, is a write-in sex advice column in many 'alternative' newspapers.) OR Look up Santorum in Google.

[BiggJawn]

11. Like a "Jeffery Dahmer ReTHUGlican"?

Like people in Indiana. They'd vote for Jeffery Dahmer if he had ran as a ReTHUG...And probably let him babysit the kids, too....

[Wapsie B]

12. Me.

For the rest of my life.

[ChoralScholar]

13. Here's My Yellow Dog Democrat

[iconoclastic cat]

14. Awwww!

Lookadamutt!

[ChoralScholar]

15. 1/2 Shepherd, 1/2 Sharpei - Her name's Ginger - EOM

[iconoclastic cat]

17. Gorgeous!

I can't wait to get a bigger place so that we can adopt a dog. There is a severe lack of chewing around here.

[TexasProgresive]

18. Get Ginger to run and I'll vote for her