Assertion: raccoon | /r/Synonym | coon
Facets:
value: by their political opponents
type: OTHER
value: pejoratively
type: DEGREE
value: often
type: TEMPORAL
Source sentences:
text: In the 1830s, the United States Whig Party used the raccoon as an emblem, causing them to be pejoratively known as "coons" by their political opponents, who saw them as too sympathetic to African-Americans.
text: Procyon lotor Common Names : Raccoon, coon
text: Raccoons, often called coons, eat fish and frogs that they catch in rivers and streams.
text: The raccoon, sometimes spelled racoon, also known as the common raccoon, North American raccoon, northern raccoon and colloquially as coon, is a medium-sized mammal native to North America.
text: In the 1830s, the United States Whig Party used the raccoon as an emblem, causing them to be pejoratively known as "coons" by their political opponents, who saw them as too sympathetic to African-Americans.