Talk:Barnburners and Hunkers

I changed the name of this page from "Barnburners" to "Barnburners and Hunkers." There is no separate article on just Hunkers, and the article that was originally called just "Barnburners" had equal information for both groups. Also, the way the article was constructed, the causal observer would think that Hunkers were the same thing as Barnburners, rather than their opponents (I made that mistake when I first saw it). I just felt that this change would help to clarify. Kakashi-sensei 14:32, 5 May 2005 (UTC)

Hunkers: does it ot also mean kneeling down, when your hamstrings are touching your calves? i.e he was kneeling on his hunkers?

In the last page a reference is made to "conscience Whigs." Could this phrase be elaborated on or linked to another pertinent article? LicenseAppliedFor (talk) 00:02, 25 February 2008 (UTC)

Schlesinger is better
Arthur Schlesinger's The Age of Jackson explains this a lot better 108.28.145.40 (talk) 19:11, 5 July 2022 (UTC)

Etymology of "Hunker"
I see that the folk etymology of Hunker was removed earlier this month. A better source could be useful - The Bold Brahmins by Lawrence Lader notes the 'hankering for political power' language (p.134), incidentally, though doesn't cite anything - but I think it's a useful bit of information to include. As the page stands now there's a clear reason Barnburners were called Barnburners but Hunkers is left a mystery. Mainstay17 (talk) 15:36, 18 April 2023 (UTC)