Great comment from reader PatrickHenry. I want to reprint it:
Comment from PatrickHenry
Time September 8, 2008 at 5:44 pmGood observations. The following article might be of interest to readers:
http://www.visualthesaurus.com/cm/wordroutes/1430/
Not only does it confirm the fact that Republicans have been designated the blue party on several occasions, but it highlights the history of the color coded system and the formula the media uses to assign colors in an election (developed because both parties wanted the blue designation – further proof that red is associated with socialism). Conveniently, the formula has been abandoned this year, see below:
“This year it looks like the networks and other news outlets have abandoned the old color-switching formula, since the system would assign blue to incumbent Republicans and red to the Democrats. (See, for instance, the online electoral maps from ABC, CNN, the New York Times, which all use the blue-for-Dem, red-for-GOP coding.)”
With the 2008 election, it is the Republicans turn to be blue but the Democrats obviously do not want to give up the color and become red again. I encourage all readers to go to the link provided by PatrickHenry to learn the background of color associations for the Democrats and Republicans.
Three points:
1) We should ponder why the Democrats so afraid of the color red.
2) Americans should consider why the media are not making the change in color affiliation for This is more evidence that the Old Media are branches of the Democratic Party.
3) It is time for Republicans to stop referring to themselves as red or as living in red States, and to correct friends and colleagues if they do so. We need to correct the media as well. Time to reclaim the blue. We need to start now.
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