Yes, it was a beautiful thing. Here's the 1984 electoral map.
Let’s sell/give/pay Minnescrotuh, to Canada.
Those were the days.
Yowza
That is not the correct 1984 map for Reagan’s win.
The “Redstate.com” and other “South Will Rise Again” (RED on Civil War maps, representing the South {and Democrats, too}) politicos ... have continued to push the RED meme.
BLUE is the color for Reagan Republicans and states and counties won - in 1980 and in 1984.
Some years after, the TV network news swapped the colors, in order to confuse west coast voters: The abundance of BLUE at a glance of the TV, had west coast voters thinking that Republicans were winning - so no need to rush from work to the polls before going home.
Again, BLUE is for REAGAN, and RED is for COMMUNISTS/LEFTISTS/SOCIALISTS.