[Buffalo Head]

Back in the 1950's and 60's the media identified red as the Democrat party and blue as the Republican party when drawing political maps concerning elections. Somewhere along the line the media swapped the earlier color identifications. How many of the old timers here can remember that?

Socialists were identified as Pinko's. Not quite full Communists yet.

[Freee-dame]

Literary and historical references to “reds” has always meant communists. Young people will read these pre 2000 references and think that they refer to Republicans. The propaganda press flipped the colors for the two parties in 2000 knowing exactly what they were doing.

[conservative98]

In the 1980s, too.

R switched to totally red in 2000.

[Justa]

The Red-Blue swap occurred during the 2000 election. Voter New Service did it so the MSM would be free of culpability. But VNS was a creation of the MSM. They all contributed to it and used its service.

[lizma2]

It happened during the Bush v. Gore race.

I was at the local Republican election center watching the results that night and we all figured the Left couldn’t afford the Red Commie symbolism anymore. It was too close to the truth.

[NFHale]

“...Socialists were identified as Pinko’s. Not quite full Communists yet. ...”

Socialists are just Nazis without tailored uniforms.