Anybody know how, historically, red came to represent the Republian Party and blue the Democrats? I suspect, but do not know, it had to do with the TV networks using those colors to show on maps of the U.S. on election nights. I have been unable to find any reference to those colors representing parties in the 1950s, when there was television but maybe not the widespread use of color television.
Anybody know how, historically, red came to represent the Republian Party and blue the Democrats? I suspect, but do not know, it had to do with the TV networks using those colors to show on maps of the U.S. on election nights. I have been unable to find any reference to those colors representing parties in the 1950s, when there was television but maybe not the widespread use of color television.
A long history of changing colors - see the Wikipedia article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_states_and_blue_states#:~:text=Starting%20with%20the%202000%20United,presidential%20and%20other%20statewide%20elections.
I either need new glasses or I need to read slower because I saw the title of this topic as "Red and Blue panties".