There is no official color designation for the parties; and they used to commonly be “reversed” although it varied from media outlet to outlet.
Here's a blue Reagan button from the 1980 election.
The colors “switching” is almost entirely a media fabrication. Different television networks trying out different colours and configurations, copying each other, chasing viewer numbers, etc. and the 2000 election is where it gets kind of standardized as what we have today.
“My firm belief is that the turning point in red/blue states was the national map (that) USA Today ran the day after the election in 2000, in which — for whatever reason — red was Republican and blue was Democratic-”
Keating Holland, CNN’s director of polling and election analysis from 1993 to 2014.
It’s just in the rest of the world it’s red for left and blue for right. The USA is the other way round, I wonder if it’s similar to Labour Day in the USA being a different day.
They actually swapped which color was representing which party in election years on TV until the 2000 election. The election coverage went on until the almost the end of that year due to contested Presidential Election that went to the Supreme Court but the concept of “red states” and “blue states” was burned into the collective memory so hard they just stayed like that afterwards.
I suspect the red=left association has to do with socialism which is haram in the US. Also the democrats go all the way back to Jefferson and were the conservative party until FDR.
During the 2000 election all the major news networks happened to use red for states that went Republican and blue for states that went Democratic, and it kind of stuck since.
Why are the American right red and left blue, the opposite to most other places?
There is no official color designation for the parties; and they used to commonly be “reversed” although it varied from media outlet to outlet.
Here's a blue Reagan button from the 1980 election.
The colors “switching” is almost entirely a media fabrication. Different television networks trying out different colours and configurations, copying each other, chasing viewer numbers, etc. and the 2000 election is where it gets kind of standardized as what we have today.
Keating Holland, CNN’s director of polling and election analysis from 1993 to 2014.
That’s a detailed answer, thank you.
It’s just in the rest of the world it’s red for left and blue for right. The USA is the other way round, I wonder if it’s similar to Labour Day in the USA being a different day.
They actually swapped which color was representing which party in election years on TV until the 2000 election. The election coverage went on until the almost the end of that year due to contested Presidential Election that went to the Supreme Court but the concept of “red states” and “blue states” was burned into the collective memory so hard they just stayed like that afterwards.
I suspect the red=left association has to do with socialism which is haram in the US. Also the democrats go all the way back to Jefferson and were the conservative party until FDR.
During the 2000 election all the major news networks happened to use red for states that went Republican and blue for states that went Democratic, and it kind of stuck since.