The reason for the flip to show dim states as blue is that red historically has been associated with radicals and communism.
Media couldn't have that imagery so they flipped them.
I had bought my first VCR that day, and when I finally got it hooked up and turned on TV, first sight was a sea of blue behind John Chancellor
One of the most exciting moments of my life
I still have that tape somewhere
They all went red at the same time including Fox. We should demand a network let us be blue again. It was such a media coordinated sham.
It got successfully flipped because most conservatives instantly accepted the PC change as conservatives tend to do.
>>The reason for the flip to show dim states as blue is that red historically has been associated with radicals and communism.
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I know every time I see that red-blue map, it annoys and irritates me. I used to wonder why the GOP just accepted that switch. I don’t wonder about it now.
They used to alternate between red and blue, and many years ago I remember networks having opposite color schemes in the same election year.
The 2000 election changed that, because the red/blue color scheme for that election stayed undecided for many weeks after Election Day and was a regular feature on nightly news reports. People just got used to it, so the networks kept it that way.
Yes I remember it well. They didn’t like the better dead than red stigma, while blue was the traditional color of the Tory Party in England: true blue conservative.
Yes. And the right had just blindly went along with it.