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(redirected fromRed states and blue states) Wikipedia n. A US state in which a majority of the electorate votes for the Democratic candidate in a statewide election. [From the fact that states that have elected Democratic candidates are often colored blue on maps in media reports.] ...
Red and Blue States Around the year 2000, the terms red states and blue states referred to the states in the United States of America whose citizens predominately voted for either the Republican or Democratic party during the presidential and senatorial election. Those states that primarily voted ...
Red pill and blue pill, symbols originating from the 1999 science fiction film The Matrix. The pills represent a choice between remaining in a state of blissful ignorance (blue) or accepting a painful reality (red). Since The Matrix’s release, the red p
Wikipedia (European Politics)originally, one who maintained extreme republican doctrines in France, - because a red liberty cap was the badge of the party; an extreme radical in social reform. See underRed. See also:Red,Republican Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. &...
You only have to look at the map and ask the question ‘who won the election?’ to see the problem. There is more red than blue which suggests a win for the Republicans when the opposite was the case. The electoral college voting system means that a stat...
between Republican George W. Bush and Democrat Al Gore. News coverage showed election results with a two-tone map. A red state meant it was won by the Republican candidate and a blue state meant it was won by the Democrat. That election gave momentum to the political use of both colors....
The red and the blue; Across America and here in Minnesota, the classic election-night map - showing blue for areas that vote Democratic and red for Republican - has come to represent a divide that is not only political but cultural.(NEWS)(OP EX)...
(1) gauge the extent to which national election results reflect significant policy and political differences between the red and blue states and (2) to assess the explanatory power of the dichotomous red–blue label relative to a continuous variable of "redness" or "blueness" by the percentage ...
Anyone today recognizes that map: “Those are the Red States and those are the Blue States.” But, that doesn’t jive with what we see in this 1904 map: While the Civil War was certainly about States’ Rights to maintain the institution of chattel slavery, as seen in that map and any...