[fieldmarshaldj]

"Maybe what - 30 years ago? Sorry. The color codes for red being conservative and blue being dem have been well established now for decades -- without your permission."

Nope. 2000. Go do some research. No one with a straight face identified Conservatism with Communist Red before that, and doing it now defies all logic and reason. The Canadians don't have this bullcrap bizarro world color scheme for their parties.

[plain talk]

Nope. 2000. Go do some research. No one with a straight face identified Conservatism with Communist Red before that, and doing it now defies all logic and reason

Don't need to do any reserach as I have lived through elections going to Kennedy vs Nixon. CBS used red states for Republicans as far back as 1984 for Reagan / Mondale. I remember it well. Its true that not all media used that scheme until 2000 which is what you are probably referring to. But the red state = Republican has been used for decades and eventually prevailed. So get over it. Now is now and then was then.