"Liberal" is not what underdog mean.
I don't want to keep pulling rank around here, but then this is why I did go on about the "us" thing yesterday. Me Muh'merican. Me speak Muh'merican.
This reminds me of a conversation I had with a Mexican here just yesterday. She was asking me about "Ba-ba-baba, yo no se, ba ba algo" trying to say banana." She wanted to know what banana translates into Spanish.
I told her It's "banana" and it's "guineo" in Spanish.
No, she said, it's "platano"
No, I told her, platano is plantain in English.
No, she says again, guineo is platano, and platano is guineo, so therefore ba-ba-ba-ba-ba something is guineo.
Back and forth this continued for some time until finally I started cracking up and just shook my head and said I just can't deal with this nonsense anymore. She's been here for decades and can't speak a word of English. Can't, even say the name of her neighborhood right, and doesn't know the name of her daughter's college.
So someone who can't even say "banana" and that has not never eaten them nor plantains is telling me that a banana is a plantain, and a plantain is a banana. Mind you, not only do I know English, but bananas and plantains are big staples in my mother's half of my background. So it's not just a case of knowing how to say them in English, but in Spanish as well.
"Underdog" means "underdog." It is not a political stance, a political party, a race, or a synonym for someone who thinks they are a perpetual victim. For example, on September 11, 2001, the United States of America became an underdog. For the first time in nearly two centuries.