Named by one's enemies

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This is happened a number of times to political and religious factions. Offhand, I can think of the following:

Whigs
Tories
Puritans
Quakers
Shakers
Methodists
Trickle-down economics

Any other examples?

UPDATES (from the readers):
Anti-federalists
Capitalists
Levelers
Transcendentalists
Know-Nothing Party

Comments

  1. SM3:27 PM

    Anti-Federalists

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  2. SM3:29 PM

    Antifederalists

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  3. Anonymous4:44 PM

    Capitalists

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  4. Anonymous5:44 PM

    Transcendentalists

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  5. PH10:28 PM

    Not quite analogous, but the "Big bang" theory was named by Hoyle, who was a major critic.

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  6. Unknown11:15 AM

    Nativists (Know-Nothing Party)

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  7. Anonymous11:55 AM

    Levelers

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  8. Scott9:10 PM

    Christians
    Orthodox Jews ('Orthodox' was applied to them by 'progressive' Jews)

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