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   blue dog Dem·o·crat

   noun

   • 1. (in the US) a Democrat from a southern state who has a conservative voting record. informal

   Word Origin from the name of a coalition of Southern Democrats in the US Congress formed in 1995. Their name alludes to an older term, “yellow dog Democrat,” for a party loyalist who allegedly “would vote for a yellow dog if it were on the ballot as a Democrat.”.

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