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Why Do a Donkey and an Elephant Represent Democrats and Republicans? (2016x227)

Air date: Nov 01, 2016

→Subscribe for new videos every day! https://www.youtube.com/user/TodayIFoundOut?sub_confirmation=1 →How "Dick" came to be short for 'Richard': https://youtu.be/BH1NAwwKtcg?list=PLR0XuDegDqP2Acy6g9Ta7hzC0Rr3RDS6q Never run out of things to say at the water cooler with TodayIFoundOut! Brand new videos 7 days a week! More from TodayIFoundOut Frogs Don't "Ribbit" and 10 Other Animal Facts https://youtu.be/gzuX2fTzJhY?list=PLR0XuDegDqP1IHZBUZvKkPwkTr6Gr0OBO Why Black Cats Are Considered Bad Luck https://youtu.be/m8ccVofwO-E?list=PLR0XuDegDqP2yEk58fgohft2Z1nhcmwis In this video: The donkey is stereotypically bumbling, slow, and stubborn; the elephant– big and clumsy. Being compared to one of these animals is not exactly flattering in this sense. Yet, for well over a century, they have been the popular symbols of America’s major political parties – the donkey for Democrats and the elephant for Republicans. So how did the donkey and elephant enter into our political lexicon? As one could imagine, it all started with an insult. Want the text version?: http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2014/04/donkey-elephant-come-represent-u-s-political-parties/ Sources: http://people.howstuffworks.com/donkey-elephant.htm http://mentalfloss.com/article/23805/how-did-donkey-elephant-become-political-mascots http://www.access2knowledge.org/featured/why-are-democrats-represented-as-donkeys-and-republicans-as-elephants/ http://www.ourwhitehouse.org/donkeyandelephant.html http://www.pbs.org/kcet/andrewjackson/edu/campaignselections.html http://cozine.com/2012-august/how-the-jackass-became-a-democrat http://books.google.com/books?id=vQQ_uxoWdpYC&pg=PA87#v=onepage&q&f=false http://www.historybuff.com/library/refnast.html http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/1593920?uid=3739256&uid=2&uid=4&sid=21103592213081 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Nast http://www.thefreedictionary.com/Caesarism