[Clutch Martin]

“Can we stop with the ‘red/blue’ designations?
Before AlGore the Democrats were always commie-red.”

I always thought it was rather telling, or at least interesting that red on tactical battle maps always denoted the enemy, and blue always denoted the friendly’s. I think there’s a connection, or at least I always imagined that the connection existed.

[elcid1970]

IIRC, the blue/red switcheroo occurred during the 1980 Presidential campaign when the three networks (all there was then) decided to depict the electoral map with states going for Jimmah Carter in blue, and states for Ronald Reagan in red.

John Chancellor or somebody said later the networks did not want the color red associated with the Democrat party because of its communistic associations (flags of USSR, China, North Vietnam) and felt red was more appropriate for the going-Republican southern states as it symbolized red clay & backwardness. True story.

[JimRed]

I always thought it was rather telling, or at least interesting that red on tactical battle maps always denoted the enemy, and blue always denoted the friendly’s. I think there’s a connection, or at least I always imagined that the connection existed.

Well, it WAS a media creation, and the way THEY are...we are their enemy.