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Political Map Coloration

by: mysterfox

Sun Mar 07, 2010 at 15:20:57 PM EST
Why are conservative states red and progressive states blue? Even as recently as the seventies, the colors were the other way around. Was there a reason for the change, or was it someone's whim?
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It seems to be the consensus that there was no universally agreed-upon color assignment until the disputed Gore/Bush election in 2000, when the maps, technology, and terminology got so much use that it became standard.

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They used to routinely switch which side was red and which side was blue every presidential election, so neither side would be associated too much with either color. Then came 2000, and the colors more or less got locked in. Some places may have still tried to swap them around, but people were so used by them to thinking 'red/blue' that they got confused.

IT for John Lynch '04 and NHDP '08 - I'm liking my track record so far!
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