[justiceseeker93]

This red blue thing happened by accident cause they used to rotate the colors on the map and the first time anyone cared about the map was 2000 but the media was all too eager to roll with it for future elections so as not to associate the democrats with the color of socialism.

Is that really true? An accident? Nah, I think the media planned it that way.

BTW, what did they do for the color scheme of the electoral map in the days of black-and-white TV? I was around then, but I can't recall.

[Impy]

Yes actually I think you’re right. I don’t know where I heard that they used to alternate colors but it turns out there was no consistency in what colors were used even in 2000.

With the map suddenly a big deal after the election, they all began to use Red for Republican and Blue for Democrat. That was a choice, as was choice of every outlet that use that color scheme before. The egghead media types that make these decision certainly know what they are doing.