What does the "purple" states represents?

Watching CNN and the political analysts made reference to NC as a purple state 🤔

I'm such an idiot to be asking this question I know. Please don't embarrass me 😓

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States whose electoral votes are up for grabs; they can go either for the Republicans or the Democrats because the vote is so close. The purple states are the states that decide the election.