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bourbon
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[ noun ] (politics) a reactionary politician in the United States (usually from the South)
Used in print (Edward P. Lawton, "Northern Liberals and Southern...)And both in their objectives of non-discrimination and of social progress they have had ranged against them the Southerners who are called Bourbons . The nature of the opposition between liberals and Bourbons is too little understood in the North . Among Bourbons the racial issue may have less to do with their remaining unreconstructed than other factors . The two main charges levelled against the Bourbons by liberals is that they are racists and social reactionaries . There is much truth in both these charges , and not many Bourbons deny them . Related terms |
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[ noun ] (food) distilled from a mash of corn and malt and rye and aged in charred oak barrels
Used in print (Edward P. Lawton, "Northern Liberals and Southern...)The name presumably derives from the French royal_house which never learned and never forgot ; since Bourbon whiskey , though of Kentucky origin , is at_least as much favored by liberals in the North as by conservatives in the South . |
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[ noun ] Last name, frequency rank in the U.S. is 22437
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[ noun ] (politics) a member of the European royal family that ruled France
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[ noun ] a European royal line that ruled in France (from 1589-1793) and Spain and Naples and Sicily
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