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[Era Might]

I live in a blue state with an elephant for governor.

I guess my state's like me. Confused.

[Azriel]

I live in a Blue State ... actually the same one as LD.

::Waves at LD in GR from Flint-town::

[Sojourner]

I live in a red state, but not for long.

[zwergel88]

Okay, I have a question. Lets look at the facts.

Republicans are considered the "right"
Democrats are considered the "left"
Communism is on the "left"

From that we can infer that being a democrat makes one closer to being a communist (I'm a democrat and not a communist but that's just the way politics works)

The color of Communism is red.

So my question is: Why are the red states Republican and the blue states Democrat? I don't get it. They should switch it.

Anyway, as it stands now, I live in a blue state.

[MissScripture]

[quote name='zwergel88' post='973042' date='May 5 2006, 09:31 PM']
Okay, I have a question. Lets look at the facts.

Republicans are considered the "right"
Democrats are considered the "left"
Communism is on the "left"

From that we can infer that being a democrat makes one closer to being a communist (I'm a democrat and not a communist but that's just the way politics works)

The color of Communism is red.

So my question is: Why are the red states Republican and the blue states Democrat? I don't get it. They should switch it.

Anyway, as it stands now, I live in a blue state.
[/quote]
I've wondered that, too...not to mention that it kind of creeps me out when they are talking about how many "red" states there are...it just gives me this uncomfortable feeling, because of how red is related to communism. How about we just don't use it as one of the colors at all?

[jiyoung]

I'm in a blue state...California, one of the bluest states of all -_-; Interestingly enough, though, my old hometown Garden Grove was rated one of the most conservative cities in the state.

[the_rev]

I live in a blue state, we had a republican governor for a long time, but that changed once he took a job with the presidential administration.

[Norseman82]

[quote name='Sojourner' post='972389' date='May 5 2006, 11:58 AM']
I live in a red state, but not for long.
[/quote]

Where are you moving to?

[Lounge Daddy]

[quote name='Azriel' post='972236' date='May 5 2006, 11:18 AM']
I live in a Blue State ... actually the same one as LD.

::Waves at LD in GR from Flint-town::
[/quote]
waves back from G.R. to Flint"-town"
i hope this state turns red and has serious changes... before i cant afford to live here anymore

[zwergel88]

[quote name='MissScripture' post='973087' date='May 5 2006, 09:20 PM']
I've wondered that, too...not to mention that it kind of creeps me out when they are talking about how many "red" states there are...it just gives me this uncomfortable feeling, because of how red is related to communism. How about we just don't use it as one of the colors at all?
[/quote]


I agree, I'm a big fan of the donkey and elephant stuff but I think we should just drop the color stuff.

[Mercy me]

I life in a red state with a large blue state population down in the south. Said blue state population can't operate a ballot and it embarrasses the rest of us.

[Socrates]

[quote name='zwergel88' post='973042' date='May 5 2006, 08:31 PM']
Okay, I have a question. Lets look at the facts.

Republicans are considered the "right"
Democrats are considered the "left"
Communism is on the "left"

From that we can infer that being a democrat makes one closer to being a communist (I'm a democrat and not a communist but that's just the way politics works)

The color of Communism is red.

So my question is: Why are the red states Republican and the blue states Democrat? I don't get it. They should switch it.

Anyway, as it stands now, I live in a blue state.
[/quote]
Definitely agree with you that being a Democrat is closer to being a Communist

And I've kinda felt the same way, as (during the Cold War, at least) calling someone "red" always meant Communist.

However, this "red state/blue state" terminology just goes back to the 2000 presidential elections, in which one of the T.V. news stations showed a map of the U.S. after the elections in which states which went for Bush in the election were colored red, and those that went for Gore were colored blue.
(I think these colors were totally arbitrary, no deep meaning to them.)
This map and its supposed implications were since much discussed in the media, and the terms "red state" and "blue state" entered into common socio-political parlance.

(btw - when the map is divided according to counties, rather than states, it gets even more interesting - the "blue" area gets much smaller - concentrated largely in urbanized areas.)

[zwergel88]

very interesting. Thank you for the history of that. I definately think the media was trying to pull one over on people.

[Socrates]

[quote name='zwergel88' post='973987' date='May 6 2006, 04:51 PM']
very interesting. Thank you for the history of that. I definately think the media was trying to pull one over on people.
[/quote]
How? Do you think they were trying to make people think Bush-supporters are Communist?