as someone has written being unable to find references for this (the website referenced is a web journalist.) The OED says 1909, in the Westminster Gazette, for first use. It is derived from the practice of slaveowners giving barrels of salted pork to slaves and watching the "feeding frenzy" the slaves subsequently engaged in. Hale for his story called "Pork Barrel", published in 1865 by Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper. Removed this phrase: The term was first used in print by E.K. Gasala ( talk) 19:25, 30 September 2008 (UTC) Removal It is irresponsible to mention the Maxey story without qualifying it, as if this were a matter of accepted fact. The absence of records for the slavery origin before 1919 is a matter of fact: no earlier mention of the practice is contained in any article in the Proquest newspaper database, Newspaper Archive, the Making of America collection, Google Books, or any other scholarly archive, though the term was in use in a political sense for at least 45 years before this date. It is almost certainly a later fabrication. Maxey gives no source for the story, however, and the word was in use in a political sense for more than 45 years before anybody mentioned this origin, nor is there any record of this practice from the days of slavery or from the half-century following abolition.
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I included a link to the Maxey article giving the slavery origin. I guess the analogy would be politicians fighting for money? -Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.143.43.84 ( talk I heard that the term came from slave masters giving their slaves barrels of pork and taking pleasure in seeing them fight for it.
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Is this true? Jaberwocky6669 | ☎ Holla! 01:52, 10 October 2005 (UTC) Origin alternate origin? I learned in a social problems class that pork barrel means to try to pass a bill that is so stuffed with laws that a politician wouldn't see the extra laws. I removed "pork barrel spending contributes significantly to government deficits"-the lack of specificity and use of weasel word "significantly" make this almost meaningless, and highly contestable. Both words are prominently visible on their website, so unless there is a specific reason to believe that they are not a grassroots campaign, this is more a change for political taste than it is for accuracy. Scribelrus 11:23, (UTC) I didn't realize that grassroots and conservative were mutually exclusive. Zoe 01:50, 6 January 2003 Are you volunteering? ) 2toise 13:47, (UTC) Fixed link įixed link formatting for "Americans for Prosperity", and changed the adjective "grassroots" to "conservative" for accuracy. If we're going to include this article, we need a more extensive article. contribs) 00:22, 6 January 2003 This is only one example of Pork barrel, this is not a definition.
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Isn't this just a jargon-file style dictionary entry? - Robert Merkel 00:20 (UTC)Įrr, no? - Preceding unsigned comment added by Matthew Woodcraft ( talk Peer reviewers: Cartersapphire.Ībove undated message substituted from Template: assignment by PrimeBOT ( talk) 06:58, 17 January 2022 (UTC) Inclusion in Wikipedia Further details are available on the course page.
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