[Jack Black]

I'm not sure I agree with that. I think in the past different news organizations used different colors, and some alternated between election cycles.

What happened was USA today in the year 2000, probably using technology that wasn't available earlier, made the famous map of RED COUNTIES vs. BLUE COUNTIES (not states) and printed it as the centerfold of their paper. It was just made for pulling out and sticking on the wall with a few push pins, and I'm sure it went up in newsrooms and editoral desks all over the country.

Since then the Red / Blue thing has been locked in.

I love blue, but I hate the idea of abandoning red, the color, to the commies. Consider the reconquest of Red as the first of many battles that the right is going to win in the coming decades!

Here it is from their web site.

[Chode]

i do believe the Republicans were always blue/true blue because the Republican Union Army was BLUE so the RATS were stuck with with red or white and they HATED Red on a self loathing RED Communist basis... so with the help of the L$M fifth column they glommed onto blue at their first chance

[sten]

wow, that’s a lot of weak sauce you’re slopping around

the color red has been the symbolic color for socialism since before WW2.

the progressives went into hiding due to their close ideological relationship with the commies, socialists, and nazis. when they came back in the early 60s, they had a PR problem... they wanted to insure they wouldn’t be associated with the nazis, as the image, although accurate, doesn’t play well for them.

soooo.... they started to immediately try to associated nazis with republicans and conservatives. people that are pro small govt are being associated with totalitarian fascists bent on big govt practices.

that gave them 2 benefits... the first being to distance themselves from the bad imagery and the second being able to vilify their political and ideological enemies.

red ... color of socialism, fascists, commies, and progressives.

it’s also the color of all the blood their hell bent ideology sheds ‘for the common good’