Definition of "Bourbon"

Bourbon

proper noun
1. A European dynasty which reigns in Spain and formerly ruled the Kingdom of France.
2. A surname from French.
3. (historical, Southern US) A Bourbon Democrat.
  Quotations
  It was "a fundamental impossibility" for a black person to be a Bourbon, white-supremacist Democrat, but a black individual could very well become a "progressive Democrat."
  1988, Herbert Shapiro, White Violence and Black Response: From Reconstruction to Montgomery
  As a practical matter, blacks had been denied a fair vote and a fair count even before the 1901 Constitution, because the Black Belt Bourbon white politicians used fraud and intimidation to manipulate the black vote to support conservative Democratic candidates.
  1992, West's Federal Supplement (first series), vol. 787, p. 1090.
  1. (historical, Southern US, especially Mississippi) A white conservative, particularly in the context of opposition to equal rights for black people.
    Quotations
    For the Bourbon White elite and their allies, the intimidation of the Black laborers and farmers was necessary to prevent their political involvement and to maintain their subjugated location in the economy.
    2014, Akinyele Omowale Umoja, We Will Shoot Back: Armed Resistance in the Mississippi Freedom Movement
4. A county in Kentucky, see Bourbon County.
5. Bourbon Street, a street in New Orleans, Louisiana.
6. (obsolete) The island of Réunion.
7. A town in Indiana.
8. A city in Missouri.