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Who is responsible for changing republicans to red and democrats to blue after 2000?
Before 2000, every election listed democratic states as red and republicans as blue. Red has always been associated with socialism and communism - Red China, USSR, etc. Blue is freedom. Change it back!
Nope. Sorry. Republican leaning Tim Russert chose the colors in 2000. Before that there was no consistent color scheme in the U.S.
According to Wikipedia, "There is some historical use of blue for Democrats and red for Republicans — in the late 19th century and early 20th century, Texas county election boards used color coding to help Spanish speakers and illiterates identify the parties.[4] However, this system was not applied consistently in Texas and was not picked up on a national level."
Also: " ... NBC newsman David Brinkley famously referred to the 1980 election map as showing Ronald Reagan's 44-state landslide as a 'sea of blue'. CBS, from 1984 on, used the opposite scheme—blue for Democrats, red for Republicans. ABC used yellow for one major party and blue for the other in 1976. However, in 1980 and 1984, ABC used red for Republicans and blue for Democrats. As late as 1996, there was still no universal association of one color with one party. If anything, by 1996, color schemes were relatively mixed, as CNN, CBS, ABC, and The New York Times referred to Democratic states with the color blue and Republican ones as red, while Time Magazine and the Washington Post used an opposite scheme."
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