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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Are you asking about the use of colors red and blue? Or when the deep political divisions started?[/quote] I have the same question. But the red and blue colors started with the 2000 election. The US is actually unique among the rest of the world because we don’t use red for the party on the left.[/quote] I was in the Library of Congress last week and passed a large reference book opened to a map of the 1988 House elections and the Democratic seats were red and the Republican seats were blue. I think cable news coverage is what standardized the R red/D blue. The increased polarization was also caused largely by cable news. There is no demand for 24 hour news unless people are manipulated into an exaggerated us vs them panic. There has to be a new outrage by “them” against “us” every day to keep people hooked. People were a lot less partisan in the Reagan era than they have been since Clinton. [/quote]
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