[gunnygail]

Good point. It jives with the village sheeple covering up the "bad" color of red. Just more Hollyweird vomit to ignore.

[ArrogantBustard]

Where I come from, "red" is the colour of communists.

[aruanan]

Good point. It jives with the village sheeple covering up the "bad" color of red. Just more Hollyweird vomit to ignore.

Good point? Have you and others in this thread completely lost touch with reality? The use of color, especially red for danger, as a symbol is part of a tradition thousands of years old. This is the tradition that the use of color in the movie is tying into.

You'd be far better off asking just who it was who came up with the red state/blue state scheme and why. Even though these two colors were probably chosen because they're the only two actual colors on the U.S. flag and look more interesting on a election map than red and white or blue and white, you could ask whether whoever did it did it because he wanted to associate the color of blood and sore throats and skin infections and danger with one party and "true blue" with the other. It could, however, have been nothing more than a personal preference with no symbolic intent at all.

Folks, you're making too much out of too little too often.