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Originally Posted by FanIn80
We need to petition the parties down there to swap colours. Cheering for blue to beat red just feels all kinds of wrong.
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News organizations used to alternate blue & red back and forth between the two parties (and sometimes use other colours like yellow or green) to represent won and lost states, until the election of 2000, when, by pure chance, it was the Republicans turn to be red.
A month and a half of talking-heads going on and on about "red states" and blue states" and the map being displayed everywhere and suddenly the red=Republican, blue=Democrat iconography was firmly established in the American psyche.
It's pure luck there aren't a hundred thousand "You know why the Democrats are red, right? THEY'RE COMMUNISTS" tweets every two years.