Using the term "Red State" to describe conservatives is simply buying into the Liberal propaganda first implemented in 1992 to keep people from realizing that Bill Clinton was a communist sonofabitch.
Reagan was Blue. George HW. Was Blue in his first election, but in 1992, the media was pulling out all the stops to help Billy Bastard Blowjob Clinton get elected, and by coloring Republicans as "Red" they prevented people from associating the color with that F***ing Communist.
So Erick Erickson has simply adopted the Liberal propaganda and embraced it.
Like I said, I have no respect for "Red State" or Pompous Erick Erickson.
True but the effin RNC has never pushed back and their website looks like it was designed by Chairman Mao.
We’ll know which candidate is ready to fight the domestic marxists when he announces that RED IS FOR COMMIES and Republicans will no longer be allowing the communist american media to paint them so.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_states_and_blue_states
Origins of the color scheme[edit]
Before the 2000 presidential election, the traditional color-coding scheme was “Blue for Republican, Red for Democrat,”[3] in line with European associations (red is used for left-leaning parties).[4] The colors red and blue also are part of the colors of the U.S. flag. Traditional political mapmakers, at least throughout the 20th century, have used blue to represent the modern-day Republicans, and the Federalists who preceded them. Perhaps this was a holdover from the days of the Civil War when the predominantly Republican North was “Blue”.[3] However, at that time a maker of widely sold maps accompanied them with blue pencils to mark Confederate force movements and red pencils to mark Union force movements.[5]
Contemporary use[edit]
The advent of color television prompted television news reporters to rely on color-coded electoral maps, though sources conflict as to the conventions they followed. One source claims that in the six elections prior to 2000 every Democrat but one had been coded red. It further claims that from 1976 to 2004, the broadcast networks, in an attempt to avoid favoritism in color-coding, standardized on the convention of alternating every four years between blue and red the color used for the incumbent party.[9][10]
According to another source, in 1976, John Chancellor, the anchorman for NBC Nightly News, asked his network’s engineers to construct a large illuminated map of the United States. The map was placed in the network’s election-night news studio. If Jimmy Carter, the Democratic candidate that year, won a state, it would light up in red; if Gerald Ford, the incumbent Republican president, carried a state, it would light up in blue. The feature proved to be so popular that, four years later, all three major television networks would use colors to designate the states won by the presidential candidates on Election Night, though not all using the same color scheme. NBC continued to use the color scheme employed in 1976 for several years. NBC newsman David Brinkley famously referred to the 1980 election map outcome as showing Republican Ronald Reagan’s 44-state landslide as resembling a “suburban swimming pool”.[11]