- a variation of Yumpie.
Yumpy
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Yumpies
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Hart's appeal to a "new generation," his high-flown "new ideas" so seductive to the Yumpies of New England, fell flat among skeptical New Yorkers.
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But now Boss seems to have found a market among the so-called Yumpies, the young, upwardly mobile professionals.
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Many Yumpies seem more interested in making money for themselves than in redistributing it to the poor.
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In Maryland, where Hart campaigned for barely half an hour, Mondale carried even the suburbs, home of Hart's usually loyal cadre of young, upwardly mobile professionals, the Yumpies.
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But the race could still be close: Connecticut has a large ethnic, blue-collar labor vote, and the Yumpies tend to be Republicans, who cannot cross over and vote in the Democratic primary.
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