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<blockquote data-quote="Box Ox" data-source="post: 6128466" data-attributes="member: 48469"><p>[URL unfurl=&quot;true&quot;]https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/when-republicans-became-red-democrats-became-blue-104176297/[/URL]</p><h3><span style="font-size: 18px">When Republicans Became ‘Red’ and Democrats Became ‘Blue’</span></h3><h3><span style="font-size: 18px"><em>The 2000 presidential election cemented the color-coded nature of political parties. Prior to that race, the colors were often reversed on electoral maps</em></span></h3><p></p><p>&quot;That’s right: In the beginning, the blue political party was red, and the red party was blue. For more than two decades, the colors changed back and forth depending on the election year and the network, in what appears, in hindsight, to be a flight of whimsy. The notion that there were “red states” and “blue states”—and that the former were Republican and the latter Democratic—wasn’t ingrained in the national psyche until 2000, when the United States Supreme Court effectively awarded Florida’s 25 electoral votes to Governor George W. Bush of Texas, cementing his victory over incumbent Vice President Al Gore.&quot;</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="Box Ox, post: 6128466, member: 48469"] [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/when-republicans-became-red-democrats-became-blue-104176297/[/URL] [HEADING=2][SIZE=5]When Republicans Became ‘Red’ and Democrats Became ‘Blue’[/SIZE][/HEADING] [HEADING=2][SIZE=5][I]The 2000 presidential election cemented the color-coded nature of political parties. Prior to that race, the colors were often reversed on electoral maps[/I][/SIZE][/HEADING] "That’s right: In the beginning, the blue political party was red, and the red party was blue. For more than two decades, the colors changed back and forth depending on the election year and the network, in what appears, in hindsight, to be a flight of whimsy. The notion that there were “red states” and “blue states”—and that the former were Republican and the latter Democratic—wasn’t ingrained in the national psyche until 2000, when the United States Supreme Court effectively awarded Florida’s 25 electoral votes to Governor George W. Bush of Texas, cementing his victory over incumbent Vice President Al Gore." [/QUOTE]

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