Read the last paragraph again, please.
Notice when Wikipedia changed the color scheme indicating which party in which state got the electoral votes. If you didn't know better you would think it was 1980 that the drive by media made the switch from traditional GOP blue to the red of traditional pinkos in the Cold War. The drive by media made actually made the switch in 2000. Don't trust Wikipedia on anything political.
Excepting Carter's 1976 southern win, the South has been strong GOP Presidential territory ever since.
The first bolded string means the link in the article to the 1976 electoral map in which Georgia was colored red.
The bolded GOP means the link to the 1980 electoral map in which Georgia was colored blue.
The blue and red colors on a Presidential election map have been traditional until 2004. The party holding the Whitehouse has been traditionally colored blue, while the party not controlling the Whitehouse has traditionally colored red.
That means in 1976, when Carter won Georgia, Georgia was a “red state”, because the Republicans controlled the Whitehouse and Carter was a Democrat. In 1980 when Carter again won Georgia, Georgia was a “blue state” because he (and therefore the Democrats) held the Whitehouse.
In 1984, Brinkley famously referred to Reagan’s landslide as a “Sea of Blue”. Since the Republican’s held the Whitehouse, they were “blue”.
In 2000, there came the phrases “red state” and “blue state”. The MSM took up those nicknames and changed tradition in the 2004 election making Bush’s States Red and Kerry’s States Blue, breaking the general tradition that went back to 1968 (first color television coverage of an election).
Red=Blood of Christ
White=Purity of Christ
Blue=Law of God
The Rodent Commie Party can change us from Blue to Red however jokes on them...RED...BLOOD OF CHRIST...