bourbon

1. (historical, Southern US) A Bourbon Democrat.Examples: "It was "a fundamental impossibility" for a black person to be a Bourbon, white-supremacist Democrat, but a black individual could very well become a "progressive Democrat.""; "1992, West's Federal Supplement (first series), vol. 787, p. 1090. As a practical matter, blacks had been denied a fair vote and a fair count even before the 1901 Constitution, because the Black Belt Bourbon white politicians used fraud and intimidation to manipulate the black vote to support conservative Democratic candidates."Southern-UShistorical

2. (historical, Southern US) A Bourbon Democrat.Examples: "For the Bourbon White elite and their allies, the intimidation of the Black laborers and farmers was necessary to prevent their political involvement and to maintain their subjugated location in the economy."Southern-UShistorical

3. (obsolete) The island of Réunion.obsolete