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the great unwashed. In 1901 the Congressional Record noted that “the Democratic Party has long been known as the ‘great unwashed.’ ” By then the epithet was at least 50 years old. The great unwashed is still heard today occasionally in reference to what the speaker believes are “the lower classes,” but is not ap- plied to the Democrats. In the late 18th century the British had called the rabble of the French Revolution the great unwashed. |