Red diaper baby

Posted by Joe on July 23, 2009 at 18:18

In Reply to: Red diaper baby posted by Gary Martin on July 23, 2009 at 16:12:

: : 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.

Kenneth Keniston has spoken of "the Red diaper babies in 1968 Young Radicals: Notes on Committed Youth. New York

• Red diaper baby Smokey Stover 27/July/09