FWIW or not.
In the USA
The earliest citation is
not politically correct, found in the
U.S. Supreme Court decision
Chisholm v. Georgia (1793), denoting that the statement under judgment is literally incorrect, as understood in the eighteenth-century US: “The states, rather than the People, for whose sakes the States exist, are frequently the objects which attract and arrest our principal attention. . . . Sentiments and expressions of this inaccurate kind prevail in our common, even in our convivial, language. Is a toast asked? [To] ‘The United States’, instead of [to] the ‘People of the United States’, is the toast given. This is not politically correct.”
[4]
In Marxism–Leninism
In
Marxist–Leninist and
Trotskyist vocabulary,
correct was the common term denoting the “appropriate
party line” and the ideologic/ “correct line”.
[6] Likewise in the
People's Republic of China, as part of Mao’s declarations on the
correct handling of “non-antagonistic contradictions”.
[1][7][8][9] MIT professor of literature Ruth Perry traces the term from
Mao Zedong’s
Little Red Book (1964).
More at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_correctness
Edited in: I was too quick on the Submit trigger. Sorry, Bill.