I remember when Reagan won, we were solid Blue. Who switched the colors, and why???
The colors were switched during the 2000 national elections. I think it was another Leftist ploy to throw people off as to who they really are. Is there someone who can correct this mistake by making a map showing the Leftist-controlled States as being RED and the rest of them blue? Thanks!
Joseph Farah has something to say about this.
http://www.creators.com/opinion/joseph-farah/how-to-red-states-blue.html
How to Red States Blue
(excerpt)
I must be getting old. I’m getting forgetful. I have trouble remembering what a red state denotes and what a blue state means.
But I don’t think it’s an early case of Alzheimer’s that causes this confusion. Rather, I suggest to you the fact that I am old enough to remember when Democratic states were labeled red and Republican states were considered blue.
I would also suggest that former system made more sense and was deliberately changed by media partisans who didn’t like to suggest Democrats as being associated with the color red.
Let me provide a little history for those too young to remember and for those old enough to have forgotten.
The current use of Republican red and Democrat blue began only eight years ago. It has been attributed to the late Tim Russert, a respected television interviewer, but one who worked formerly for Democratic Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan of New York. He first used this color scheme in 2000, according to the Washington Post, and it took.
I’m not surprised it did, given the political complexion of the national press corps.
In fact, even the predictably leeward tilting Wikipedia acknowledges the newly adopted U.S. hue standard stands in stark contrast “to the system of political colors in most other long-established democracies, where blue represents right wing and conservative parties, while red represents left-wing and socialist parties.”
I strongly suspect this not-so-subtle change eight years ago was deliberate on the part of Russert and those who so eagerly picked up on it.