PM will put ‘blue map’ to work as polls point to Liberal clean-sweep (Australia goes conservative)

The Australian ^ | 14th March 2014 | Dennis Shanahan

[fieldmarshaldj]

Gondring sent me those links and I responded thusly:

“I’ve been through this subject for a dozen years now and have seen different takes, and while some outlets may have used different colors (some have used yellow or brown, for that matter). The central point is that this was deliberate media collusion from post-2000 onwards in flipping colors to associate the historic color of leftist/totalitarianism “red” with the Republicans. There was no such situation on that scale prior to that. There was no such “red state/blue state” entering the lexicon with willfully misrepresented colors prior to 2000. “Red” was always the color of the leftist party, not “blue”, and you’d be hard pressed to find any nation on the planet with the party colors reversed.”

[gibsonguy]

Well maybe, but blue was for the GOP and was switched..no?
I still think it was switched at least in part because Psychologically blue invokes trust and red tends to signal danger.It may seem paranoid but when you think of what the Dems get away with it is hard not to be.

[Reeses]

Republicans = Red; Democrats = Blue goes back to the 1870s...

They didn't have color television in the 1870s or even USA Today color infographics. Newsprint was entirely black and white. Also the Democrats weren't anything close to being the commie red party back then.

[Bigg Red]

Thank you for explaining this.

And good luck!