Red diaper baby

Posted by Gary Martin on July 23, 2009 at 16:12

In Reply to: Red diaper baby posted by Nancy Grossman on July 23, 2009 at 14:47:

: Can you give some background on the phrase "red diaper baby" which I have heard twice in the last week but never before? The earliest I am finding it used so far is 2001.

I'd not come across the phrase before here in the UK - not surprisingly, as we have nappies here.

It appears in an article in the Nebraska paper The Columbus Telegram in March 1972. The context of that article suggests that the phrase was well-established then.

• Red diaper baby joe 23/July/09
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