I was watching some news coverage of Reagan's victory in '80, and the Republican states were all blue. The tin foil hat part of me says that it's because the slogan, "better dead than red," was a bit too on the nose.
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I was watching some news coverage of Reagan's victory in '80, and the Republican states were all blue. The tin foil hat part of me says that it's because the slogan, "better dead than red," was a bit too on the nose.
Started in the late 70s and early 80s, finally locking in with the current in 2000. Here's some background history - https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/when-republicans-were-blue-and-democrats-were-red-104176297/