politically sensitive labels

[Dennis Baron]

As long as we're on the subject, when did Democrat start replacing
Democratic as a proper adj? as in, Teddy Kennedy is the senior Democrat
Senator from Massachusetts, or Democrat fundraisers are playing catchup.
Seems to me when I was a lad we always said Democratic here. I assumed a few
years ago that this was a Republican plot to recover the word democratic for
their own partisan purposes, but I hear democratics usin it as well. So, as
they say, what's up with that? (Actually, when I was a lad the only word
allowed in the house was socialist, but hey, that was New York . . .)

Dennis