Why are the Republican states colored Red?
820299
The Red symbolizes the blood shed by thousands of innocent people during Dubya's dishonest and unjust war.
327166
It would be fun to watch the blue prosper while the red suffered horribly at the hands of the republicans.  We'd have to close our borders to them, they'd be arriving in droves once they realized their mistakes.
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There really wasn't a pattern before 2000. Sometimes red would be democrat, sometimes republican. Sometimes the colors would mean different things on different networks in the same election.\n\nWhat happened is this: in 2000, all networks used the same color scheme. Now, the "red/blue" thing wouldn't have entered the public consciousness like it did if it wasn't for the recount madness.\n\nSee, usually an electoral map is up for, at most, a day. The maps are useless before election day, and by the day after, everyone knows who won.\n\nBut because it took weeks to resolve the election, those maps were on the front page of the newspaper, on the TV newscast, on websites every single day. That created a connection in the public's mind -- red=republican, blue=democrat.
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The Republicans are kissing the Communists butts everyday now over Americans. That's because the Republicans are Communist too, it's a no brainer. Wal-Mart is Communist, RCA, Thompson Electronics, Microsoft, hell it's starting to become endless. They parade them around America, and call Communism Capitalism. How can it be Capitalism when they are not even Americans. The real word is called Monopolization with no free or fair trade, and that isn't Capitalism, it's Communism. So "RED" is for the Communists that they really are. I heard this from somebody else in here. The Conservatives choose Communism over Americans; because America can and would produce any thing that we need. America doesn't need anyone to produce our products for us. They choose to be Communist for greed, over America.
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I havent the the URL, but there is a comparrison chart that shows the IQ levels of the "red states" and the "blue states"...you can only guess which ones have the higher IQ...\n\nI have several family members that are republicans, they diddnt vote for him the second time around however because they finally opened their eyes a lil and saw that he is, in fact, a moron.
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It's not just you...\n\nThey tell themselves it is not about being mean.. they justify it by saying they know best.. that those ppl are just poor white trash or poor welfare blacks that don't work... meaning they blame them, therefore, think they are not worthy of help, etc..\n\nThe reality is that more white republicans are on welfare; although, it is a close tie. The reason is because of the lack of jobs in the vast Midwest states which are prominently white registered Republicans.\n\nThe other reality is that we, the democrats, believe in diplomacy much like when years of diplomacy brought down communism in the Soviet Union. Yet, the Republic party calls us weak just because we believe in saving American lives when at all possible.
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The Redsters are far superior in selling a ticket.\n\nThe democrats only have one unifying element. They are not nor ever will they be Republican.\n\nGo big Red Go
871242
I am in a blue enclave of a red state.  This seems to buck the national trend.
874066
Excellent point.  It is probably because of hate of Republicans.
938565
hmmm.....don't they have a choice of more then two parties in the u.s,that's called real democracy u know,it does not matter which of the two evils wins both apply the same form of politics.i would agree with you though that the republicans do stand for the rich. (money talks  in a capitalist world)
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This is quoted from the website below:\n"The color red refers to the period before 1952 Revolution which brought a group of army officers to power after deposing King Farouk, then King of Egypt. This was a period characterized by the struggle against the British occupation of the country. The white symbolizes the advent of the 1952 Revolution which ended the monarchy without bloodshed. The color black symbolizes the end of the oppression of the people of Egypt at the hands of the Monarchy and British colonialism."
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Historically red and orange bars have been interchanged several times on the State flag.  In Netherlands they are recognized interchangably and often flown together.  While the red bar has been predominant for quite some time, orange remains a "royal" Dutch color, as noted, because of its association with the historical ruling "House of Orange".  And also, not without importance, because the French, during the Napoleonic occupation, banned "The Prince's Flag" (which maintained the orange bar in place of red for centuries).  So orange is also a patriotic/nationalistic color reprsenting an independent Netherlands and Dutch peoples.
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Red states don't believe in culture. That's pretty much a blue state thing.
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It's normal if you are a Republican
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Because they pick and choose areas of the republican agenda that they like. Such as religion. Remember, S.Carolina and Arkansas are in the bible belt. \n\nPraise God, and pass out the welfare!!\n\nThese are your basic morons who believes an invisible man in the sky wants Bush and company to lead the country into the rapture. They are also too lazy to work while waiting for the second coming, and too stupid to think for themselves, so since Bush says God told him to president, well then, "I'm is an apublican too, by golly."
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Wonderful!  I agree 100%!!!!  It's scary to think that a moderate Republican wont be elected in the red states and a liberal democrat will...well, just not be elected...  But, I think John McCain is a great Senator, and I think that Governor Pataki of NY is a great moderate Republican, who like us, is fiscally conservative and socially more moderate than most!!  Rudy G. is good too, but I don't really know what his aspirations are or the reason for them.
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KKK is a good start and the NEO_CON"s are another, Skinheads are another, Confederates are another. Republicans in general. It is legal Racism of the rights's Christian Church, they do it in the name of God.