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Airymouse Lyr Req: See That Coon in a Hickory Tree (Delmore) (33) RE: Lyr Req: See That C**n in a Hickory Tree 14 Jun 13

AS derogatory American slang "coon" started out as a political slur in the campaign of Andrew Jackson. The idea was that Jackson's supporters were "hayseeds". It devolved in to a racial slur, so that around 1900 Edison Records was selling "coon songs' and the Tribune was publishing a cartoon of a "coon" in the White House (when T. Roosevelt invited Booker T. Washington to dine with him). My sense is that both derogatory meanings of "coon" have died out, but that's just a guess on my part.

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