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The other day I was watching a Tim Pool podcast and he said that as he was growing up in the Chicago area “vote blue no matter who” was a real saying. He was using that saying to explain Fettermans win. Have any of you guys ever heard this saying?
Yellow Dog Democrats is a political term that was applied to voters in the Southern United States who voted solely for candidates who represented the Democratic Party. The term originated in the late 19th century. These voters would allegedly "vote for a yellow dog before they would vote for any Republican". The term is now more generally applied to refer to any Democrat who will vote a straight party ticket under any circumstances. The South Carolina Democratic Party and Mississippi Democratic Party, among other state parties, continue to use the phrase to refer to committed members of the Democratic Party in the "Yellow Dog Club".
a reply to: Notabot12345666
Was “vote blue no matter who” a real saying ?
The era of color-coded political parties is more recent than you might think
In 1980, NBC once again used red for Carter and blue for the Republican challenger, Ronald Reagan, and CBS followed suit.