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Post by SherlockHolmes on Jan 11, 2023 17:22:21 GMT
I recently saw an old taped broadcast of election night from the Bush/Clinton election in 1992. It was an NBC broadcast. For some reason all the states that Clinton won were red, and all the states that Bush won were blue.
So was this a fluke, or did the colors used to be reversed? I could google it sure, but I rather read what my pals here have to say about it.
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Post by Sehlat Vie on Jan 12, 2023 1:22:46 GMT
I recently saw an old taped broadcast of election night from the Bush/Clinton election in 1992. It was an NBC broadcast. For some reason all the states that Clinton won were red, and all the states that Bush won were blue. So was this a fluke, or did the colors used to be reversed? I could google it sure, but I rather read what my pals here have to say about it. Waaaaaaay back in the day, yes. I remember Democrats being referred to as "Reds" (possibly a slur to their then-perceived sympathies to Russia; not true, of course), or the other classic "Pinkos." Blue was connected with the "Party of Lincoln" thing, to reflect the dark blue of the Union Army uniforms of the US Civil War. Here's a more solid source for you than my word: When Democrats were Red and Republicans were Blue.
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Post by nombrecomun on Jan 12, 2023 1:34:47 GMT
I recently saw an old taped broadcast of election night from the Bush/Clinton election in 1992. It was an NBC broadcast. For some reason all the states that Clinton won were red, and all the states that Bush won were blue. So was this a fluke, or did the colors used to be reversed? I could google it sure, but I rather read what my pals here have to say about it. Yep. I think it's important to remember that Dems used to represent the average blue-collared worker. That translates basically to 'uneducated white man'. So that would be many of what we now call red states. Republicans were seen as solely big business/money focused. Not sure how/when this happened but I suppose as the US started to realize there was more diversity in our nation, Dems seemed to have started to focus on minorities. Perhaps that started as just African-Americans but then it eventually grew wider to Latinos, LGBTQ+, and various other minorities including undocumented people. All of this was perceived by the once solid Democratic blue collared worker(ie, uneducated white guy) as that party abandoning them. The GOP then swept in and brought those folks into their fold. Now they have both uneducated poor white guys and big business interests. There's a lot more to that shift of course. Jobs going abroad, so much attention to the coastal cities, etc...those formerly blue states now red felt abandoned. The opioid epidemic is another example of this feeling of despair.
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