They were using Red for Democrat victories when Bill Clinton was originally elected President. The media changed the colors but some didn’t institute the change and didn’t want to regenerate all of their maps.
The fact that we NOW know victories as “Red” or “Blue” indicates that the color change was a deliberate thing. But Red is always the color of Communist revolutionaries.
They want to pretend to be “true blue” Americans.
I agree. That’s it in a nutshell. And that ‘true blue’ is a figment of their imagination, not yours and mine.