Republicans do not like to be red

[question everything]

Posted on a RW blog:

On another note, Can anyone tell me when exactly we allowed Republicans to become "red?"

I seem to recall for the longest time we were the blue states. Maybe it's just the Marine in me, but I don't like being red. Am I the only one?

Again, please correct me if I'm wrong, but I think we allowed the Democrats to switch colors on us about eight years ago. If this in fact is accurate, it was a very shrewed move on their behalf.

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I was wondering when someone would complain about it. Its just so ironic that the GOP would wrap themselves up in the commie color.
I bet Khrushchev is laughing at Nixon about it.


http://www.redcounty.com/ocblog/2006/08/changes_here_at.html#comments (and scroll down)

[baldguy]

1. Red is the color of totolitatianism.

Fits

[Khayembii Communique]

12. That just stings

:(

[question everything]

21. Hi Khayembii Communique, Welcome to DU

:toast: :bounce:

[whistle]

2. Better dead than Red, right out of the Eisenhower era

[FrenchieCat]

3. Well, they like spilled Blood apparently, even if it's for no

apparent reason.....

So yeah, they can be Red. Suits them!

[Rude Horner]

4. Is this a joke?

Ok, I know it isn't, but he's complaining about which color Repubs are? Holy shit, they really do have the mentality of a 5 year old! It's like complaining because you can't be the race car in Monopoly! Who gives a rats ass?! :banghead:

[TygrBright]

5. Goes all the way back to "Reagan Red"...

...being Nancy's favorite color. That was about when they standardized the color selection for network election graphics, IIRC.

reminiscently,
Bright

[smtpgirl]

6. The best thing about living in a red state is that the

"blue" states support the "red" welfare states. The "Blue" states have been bailing out those "red"states for years!!

Let the red-staters come to a blue state to work, I'll bet they can't handle the truth or the pressure.

I challenge a "red-stater" to commute in the WDC area everyday to work, they will love the 2-hour commute one-way to work EVERYDAY!!

I-66, westbound, and that is AGAINST traffic, or how about I-495 in MD/VA, what a pleasurable commute.

:sarcasm:


From a "blue" state and proud of it

[LA lady]

7. I am old enough to remember the origin of this!

During U.S. national elections, media outlets commonly display election results on a map of U.S. states—with each state assigned a color based on which party's candidate won the state, as nearly all states award the sum of their electoral votes in a winner-take-all contest (the exceptions being Maine and Nebraska). Because the United States has a de facto two-party system, the national colors of red and blue came to be reserved for the two major parties.

With the adoption of color television in the 1960s (and continuing with increased use of color in newspapers in the 1980s and 1990s) media outlets took advantage of this in their electoral maps on election night. But until the 2000 election, there was no consensus on color schemes among the networks. For example, from 1972 until at least 1992, NBC consistently showed Republican-won states in blue, and Democratic-won states in red. But other networks used other patterns. ABC, in at least two presidential elections during this time, used yellow for one major party and blue for the other. However, in 2000, for the first time ever, all the major broadcast networks and all the cable news outlets utilized the same color scheme: red for Republicans and blue for Democrats.

Partly as a result of this first-time universal color-coding, the terms Red States and Blue States entered popular usage in the weeks following the 2000 presidential election. Additionally, the closeness of the disputed election kept the colored maps in the public view for longer than usual, and red and blue thus became fixed in the media and in many people's minds

It used to alternate by who was the incumbent!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_state_vs._blue_state_divide

[acmejack]

Impressive!

You are a veritable font of knowledge, I had no clue

[acmejack]

8. duplicitous!

oops...

[question everything]

9. Fascinating, thank you

how appropriate that this was cemented in 2000 - the election when polarization entered the public domain.

[izzybeans]

10. Still seeing "reds" after all these years.

[LaPera]

11. Nothing the fascist can do about it! Ha...It's so "communist"...Not much

difference between the two in the political spectrum anyway...

A label they tried to instill and pin on progressives, liberals for years...Besides the history of being labeled "red"...it simply goes back to some media network chart describing states won..I always thought it was funny...they'd love to pin that color on us...again. It's a fact, and nothing they can do about it now...except be pissed and weep. (Though it really doesn't make a bit of difference). Just the fact they hate it makes me smile with glee....if we were labeled "red", they'd use it in their usual diabolical way.

Maybe they'll try to change it, we got away with a tiny inadvertent victory...Good luck!

[Popol Vuh]

13. LOL

The mentality of a Wing-nut. Angry over a color.

Where have I seen that before? Oh yeah, it started right here in Los Angeles with the criminal element: "What'up Cuz" ..... "What'up Blood".

:eyes:

[NMMNG]

14. All of the hideous crap going on in the world,

and that's what he worries about? :crazy:

[Norrin Radd]

15. It's silly that they still have a Cold War fear of the color red,

because, of course, it's one of the colors of our flag, and also for the fact that the Russians chose red as a national color because the word for the adjective "red" ( красный ) is similar to a word for the adjective "beautiful" ( красивый ).

[question everything]

17. I always thought that communism chose red as the color of blood

spilled during some altercation with police... not sure

[Norrin Radd]

20. That's true, blood of the workers, but they also had red on their

imperial state flag before that, as they do now.

http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/ru~oth.html#1705m

The color meanings are here:

http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/ru.html#cols

Red stands for "the people" on this particular flag because "red" has that connotation of "beautiful."

[primative1]

16. Always Been That Way

When I was young oh so long ago, I used to remember the color coding this way:

BLUE: Blue Collar working class type of voters
RED: Redneck states

It still sort of applies

[gratuitous]

18. If they don't like red, there is one other primary color

And I think Yellow would suit most Republicans that I know.

[Skittles]

19. the color of blood

suits that warmongering piece of SHIT party just FINE

[many a good man]

22. Red for red ink

Or maybe its for their scabby leader.