I understand. You and I are old school. People under 40 do not associate the color “red” with “Communism”. I could not understand why the Conservative States got labeled “Red”. Who made that decision anyhow? But, I’d join a movement called “Kiss a White Man’s Ass” if it would help bring defeat to the Obamaites, Clintonites, Sodomites and baby killers.
“I could not understand why the Conservative States got labeled “Red”. Who made that decision anyhow?”
That all stems from a map that was published on the internet after Bush (finally!) defeated Gore in 2000.
The map showed the county by county results of the election, which, geographically, was overwhelmingly for Bush. The person who made the map used red for the Republican counties and blue for the dem ones. That nomenclature just stuck, even though it was 180 degrees from the color scheme that had been used in the past.
I doubt the original mapmaker, or artist, or whatever we might call him or her meant anything bad by it, they probably didn’t even know about what had been used before.
I'm under 40. I was a kid in the 1980s. "Red" was ALWAYS associated with Communism prior to 2000. Other tyrannical regimes like NAZI regime were remembered for their red logos in the history books.
>> I’d join a movement called “Kiss a White Man’s Ass” if it would help bring defeat to the Obamaites, Clintonites, Sodomites and baby killers. <<
I find it amusing that on the confederate flag threads, a bunch of posters get all huffy and insist "we WON'T let the media define symbols for us!! Just because the media says the stars and bars represent racism, we REFUSE to go along with it!! TAKE BACK OUR COUNTRY!!" Then threads like this come around, the media wants to tar the conservative moment as "red" so we get lumped in with communists and NAZIs, and a bunch of "Tea Party Patriots" happily embrace it and LOVE being called "red". Not me. You want to wave the confederate flag and claim it represents "states rights" despite what the media says, you need to stop waving the "red" logo and claiming it represents the GOP because the media gave you marching orders in 2000 that it does. You can't have it both ways.