The thing that irritates me the most about american politics...

Messed up as the laws and such are, and you’re worried about the colors? 🤨

Originally both parties used red, white, and blue as their colors; the association of blue and red started in 2000 with newscasters coloring the map to show the results. I'm not sure why the colors that were chosen were chosen, but ideology had nothing to do with it.

It's kind of a sad statement: both parties used to use the general unifying American colors; now they're strictly separated.

Regardless of color the democraps will still be jackasses

The donkeys chose it

Well, the Democratic Party was the party of the Confederacy, the Republican Party the party of the Union.

Man, if there's anything to get irritated by, i dunno if colours are it, lol

I cannot recall colours being associated with politics until 2000. And it was the media who started referring to them by colours. They may have actually made a point without realizing it.....blue is the colour one turns when oxygen depleted.

Apperently it has to do with TV.
And these colours are fairly recent, since 2000.

But I'm actually intrested of someone that knows previous elections? If there was some association with colour?

https://www.thoughtco.com/meaning-behind-democrat-and-republican-colors-3368087
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/tv/la-et-st-electoral-map-20161102-htmlstory.html

TV explains everything I guess. 🤔

Helps differentiate the two parties on a map during election coverage.

Democrats chose the colors, republicans didn't flinch.

They can't spell "Colour" correctly in the USA anyway!

I don’t think it really matters in the bigger scheme of things as neither party is solely identified by blue or red.

I believe the right and left are eroding into cults. I believe the new true division is along libertarian lines.

In the UK, Labour (left) is red and Conservative is Blue. I'm with you ✊

Beats me

It didn't become a thing until the early 2000s. Before there was no standard assignment for red and blue on political maps. Depending on the day and media outlet blue and red was used for either one. Sometimes even yellow wes used.