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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
Luck. Red became the color of Republicans around 2000, same time blue became the color of Democrats. Both parties officially use red, white, and blue as their party colors.
The red/blue designation was borne purely out of the 2000 election. News networks were all doing the state-by-state coloring thing, and before then each network had their own color scheme. I think it just so happened that that year red was for Bush and blue was for Gore, and it just stuck ever since.
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The US is not alone in that the conservative party's color is red and the liberal party's color is blue. Case in point: Japan's LDP's color is red and the CDP is blue, and in S.Korea, the conservative People Power Party is red and the liberal Democratic party is blue, though I don't think this is due to some particular reason.
Edited by minseok42 on Nov 5th 2020 at 12:42:28 AM
"Enshittification truly is how platforms die"-Cory Doctorow1. They even make red Yankees hats? Their normal colors are white/grey and blue. Of course, they make all sorts of odd color Red Sox hats, so I shouldn't be surprised.
2. Us Red Sox fans here would take issue more with your choice of team than color, I'm sure.
And back to politics, the vote count discussion thread is... keeping me relatively sane
Looking it up on Wikipedia
, it's super-confusing and to the extent I understand it, it seems like it was the Carter/Ford election which cemented Red for Republicans and Blue for Democrats. Although confusingly, on this USA today article on the same issue
, the map for the Carter/Ford election seems to show the opposite of what the article says.
One thing I'm wondering is to what extent this has to do with the sort of "flip" between Democrats and Republicans. Because Wikipedia notes that Blue was (inconsistently) used for Republicans (and their predecessor parties) when the North was solidly Republican.
So, if Blue = North and Red = South, it kind of makes sense that Democrats would end up as the Blue party because they win Northern states. And vice versa for Republicans.
Edit - Rereading, I "think" what it's saying is that the Carter/Ford election standardized the idea of a color for each party, but it was still Red for Democrats and Blue for Republicans. Ditto in the next election with Carter/Reagan.
Edited by Hodor2 on Nov 4th 2020 at 10:18:23 AM
The geology of the Black Belt
but I am not sure if it's serious.
I think it is, it just uses a (entertaining) thread when one tweet would probably have sufficed.
Tl; dr, there's a solidly Democratic "strip" in the South because that geographic region has a particularly high African American population. The "strip" doesn't show up in political charts until the early 1970's, because African Americans generally had no voting rights in the South until then.
For what it's worth, Red being Republican is actually a pretty recent development if I understand correctly. If I had to guess as to why, it's because red implies "hot bloodedness" that one might associate with Republicans.
In the case of Nazism, they wanted to appropriate leftist imagery and combine it with rightist imagery in order to appear be some kind of third-way party. The Red was a deliberate appropriation of a socialist symbol.
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I hope red hats are still acceptable. Mine has a New York Yankees logo.
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