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Originally Posted by MarchHare
That's only a relatively recent development. Because of the association with communism, neither the Republicans nor the Democrats wanted to be associated with the colour red. Accordingly, the television networks would alternate every election which party was shown in red and which in blue. For the 2000 election, it just happened to be the GOP's turn to be red. That election, of course, was so close that the concept of "red states" and "blue states" became ingrained in the American consciousness, and the respective colours have stuck ever since.
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Thanks. I was thinking it was a fairly recent development that had something to do with colour TV.
Also, up until Nixon, I guess the GOP was the party of the left. Just compare the ultra Progressive Teddy Roosevelt was the crazy religious bigot in Woodrow Wilson.