And you think that Anna Ramirez is a welfare queen?

Everyone in the state of Colorado is a welfare queen.

Politicians find it easier to pander to resentment of "welfare queens."

Then all of a sudden they were lazy welfare queens scrounging off the state.

"Single mothers have been portrayed as welfare queens without any personal responsibility," she said.

There were, however, journalistic exposés on what would become known as welfare queens.

The term "welfare queen" is most often associated with Ronald Reagan who brought the idea to a national audience.

To blacks, he was the president who ridiculed "welfare queens."

Ronald Reagan told and retold his tale of a "welfare queen."

"Ronald Reagan's welfare queens are the military industrial complex," she said.