yellow dog
Noun
Meaning
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see yellow, dog.
(US, especially Southern US) A Carolina dog.
(US, informal) An item or person of low value.
(US politics, uncommon) Short for Yellow Dog Democrat.
Yellow Dog (plural Yellow Dogs)
Alternative letter-case form of yellow dog, chiefly used when the word has the sense "Carolina dog" or the sense "Yellow Dog Democrat".
Alternative names
yellow-dog
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These injunctions were often extremely broad; one injunction issued by a federal court in the 1920s effectively barred the United Mine Workers of America from talking to workers who had signed yellow dog contracts with their employers.
Today the term refers to a hard-core Democrat, supposedly referring to a person who would vote for a "yellow dog" before voting for a Republican.
It looks like small yellow dog with a bright red collar.
Politics is something that is never going to go away and whether you are a yellow dog Democrat or an ultra right wing conservative, because it is the United States, you have your right to your opinions.