I now feel like I’m insane, but I was SURE only in the last 20years or so have the media switched these colors. I think to try to dissociate commie Dems from their Red leanings.
IIRC, it was either in November 2000 or November 2004 that USA Today reversed the red/blue colors on their electoral map. This slight-of-hand occurred only a day or so after the POTUS election. Before that fateful moment, I think it was virtually universal that "blue" meant GOP and "red" meant Dhimmi.
Then when USA Today made the big switcheroo, others in the media mafia must immediately have realized the value of the deception, and they seem all to have fallen in line with record speed. Definitely a stunning psychological coup -- one that makes it harder for adversaries like us to taint Dhimmicrat lefties with their Marxist sympathies
Moreover, I gotta say I find it distressing/depressing to see how so many conservatives -- not only opinion leaders in the conservative media, but also run-of-the-mill citizens like FReepers -- have followed the MSM's lead like a herd of helpless sheep.
Anyway, those conservative pundits and commentators who refer robotically to GOP-leaning areas as "red states" or "red counties" long ago fell quite a bit on my scale of respect.