Apparently the association of red and blue with GOP and Dem only became fixed in the wake of the 2000 election, when that year's electoral map was kept on display for an unusually long time, as we all remember. Before then, they'd switched the colors back and forth between elections.
So it was a recent fluke that fixed red=GOP and blue=Dem in everyone's minds, but it's not official or anything. Besides, it seems to make more sense the other way around - red on the left extreme (as in communism), and blue on the right (as in bluebloods, people with great wealth).
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So it was a recent fluke that fixed red=GOP and blue=Dem in everyone's minds, but it's not official or anything. Besides, it seems to make more sense the other way around - red on the left extreme (as in communism), and blue on the right (as in bluebloods, people with great wealth).
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