The age-old (well, decade-old) question: On US electoral maps, should the Democrats be blue and the Republicans red, as is recent American practice, or should the Democrats be red and Republicans blue to better reflect the colors more associated with their ideologies on an international level?
Democrats and Republicans: Blue and Red, or Red and Blue?
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I mean that if we based their colors on ideology and the only two options were red and blue, the Democrats would be closer to the red and the Republicans to the blue.
Generally, I support Red Democrats and Blue Republicans but my mind opposes me, it prefers Blue Democrats and Red Republicans.
Well it probably should be Dems-Red/Repubs-Blue, but somehow I like it the way it is. The current color scheme I thinks helps mellow the mood as one gets less comments like "Democrats are red-commies" . Plus, it is America and we like to do our own thing.
Well, I miss the days where the Whigs was around. Gold and blue looks good. Or the Progressives. Green and blue just looks... right.
Democrats are blue since they're the good guys, Republicans are red since they're the bad guys. 
Democrats are blue since they're the good guys, Republicans are red since they're the bad guys.
I actually think of it that way, even though I have a slight preference for the reversed colors.
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If you mean "conservative" in the sense of "maintaining as much of the status quo as humanly possibly" there's a good case that they still are. The Democrats are the ones trying to keep the social safety net intact, while Republicans want to replace it with… uh… I'll have to get back to you on that.
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Isn't "your mind" you, though?
The current system works fine for me because (as noted above) the US does not have a conservative versus social democratic dynamic like many European countries; it has a conservative versus social-liberal one. It's like a UK parliament with Tories vs. Lib Dems, or a Bundestag with CDU vs FDP.
Our system doesn't match Europe's so our colors don't need to.
At this point it's pretty much established that the democrats are blue and the republicans are red. Though I find it ironic that, watching coverage of election night '80 on YouTube, Reagan's states were in blue. Just seems very ironic looking back that "Mr. Conservative" was given blue states.
First time I remember them doing red for the G.O.P. was in '92, IIRC. Not sure about '88.
First time I remember them doing red for the G.O.P. was in '92, IIRC. Not sure about '88.
My mind tends to read red on US electoral map as Republican, and blue Democrat.
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America does there own thing, that's the whole reason the country was founded
So, Dems should be blue, GOP red.
So, Dems should be blue, GOP red.