Since this is not an article but a sandbox draft I dont know what to edit Ill edit it here  Note You almost got it right but the subject of the article is not the term but the myth or shall we say controversy about the term The argument should be the subject   Democrat Party is a term used in the United States instead of Democratic Party when referring to the Democratic National Committee httpwwwdemocratsorgaboutfaqhtml There is an ongoing dispute about the origins of this shorthand term whether it is a natural shorthand expression or whether it is derogatory to the party A  New York Times article suggested Republicans began to use the term when Democrats used their party name to infer they are the only true adherents of democracy New Yorker commentator Hendrik Hertzberg wrote that the term is a slur intended to  express contempt He also stated that polling however indicated only deeply committed Democrats found the term offensive Political analyst Charlie Cook attributed use of the term to force of habit rather than a deliberate epithet by Republicans Ruth Marcus stated that Republicans likely only continue to employ the term because Democrats dislike it Hertzberg and Marcus both state the use of the term is trivial   History of usage The earliest known use of the term according to the Oxford English Dictionary was by a London stockmarket analyst who wrote in  Whether a little farmer from South Carolina named Tillman is going to rule the Democrat Party in America  yet it is this and not output on which the proximate value of silver depends  William Safire in year wrote about the use of the term understood as a derogatory reference and attributed it to Thomas Dewey who he credits with this usage The term gained popularity during the  presidential campaign of Wendell Wilkie Wilkies campaign manager Harold Stassen said regarding his use in the s that because the Democratic Party was controlled by Hague in New Jersey Pendergast in Missouri and KellyNash in Chicago it should not be called a Democratic Party It should be called the Democrat Party  Do you see the difference All the way through the dispute about the term should be the subject of the article not whether it really means one thing or another   Humbly offered