America 101: Why Red for Republicans and Blue for Democrats? | History

Red and blue are closely associated with the top two parties in the United States, but it's only been that way for a little more than a decade. George Stephanopoulos discusses where the colors came from. #America 101

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[Amor]

Red- is for warm blooded
Blue is cold blooded

[johnweber]

Blue for Republicans and Red for Democrats is far more intuitive than what we have now. Lol

[mackdhabib]

I considered myself a blue-republic, because the union soldiers was weared proudly blue and stands up for the President Abraham Lincoln..
don't know why the red stands for the republican today? It's supposed to be The Rebel Confederation of the Democrat Jefferson Davis..

[peterjohnson]

The party that is further Left should be Red.

[soniyasinha]

Thanks for the expalantion. IMO, It was a huge disservice to public dialogue. Now every color is associated with some or the other party or ideology. Content has taken a back seat, it is more about the packaging, creating added conflict

[stevenplayzzz]

Up in Canada and the UK the color is the opposite of

[clement]

why is blue conservative red liberal? why red republican blue democrats?

[youwatch]

Democrats used to be a conservative? Am I wrong?

[MeowAdi]

This has always been my doubt because Republican party is a Right Wing Party but Red is the colour of leftists

[christopherrandall]

I thought the colors used to be the other way around. Was it changed?

[davezarvan]

The colors are the opposite of literally everywhere else in the world.

The argument I've heard, which does make sense, is alliteration. R is for red and Republican, and you could even now throw in both right-wing and rural to that as well.

But the mainstream media wanted the Republicans to be associated with the worst regimes in world history, the communists, where red is their primary color. That is why they made Republicans red because mainstream media had a decent left-wing bias in 2000, but now it is an extreme left-wing bias.

[senororlando]

Blue is for the Union. Red is for red ink.