So what's the story behind why the political colors in America are reversed? Everywhere else in the world...

So what's the story behind why the political colors in America are reversed? Everywhere else in the world, red is the color of the political left and blue is the color of the political right.

This really isn't worth a thread, dude. You could have googled this so easily.

But anyway, it dates back a whopping 17 years. The 2000 election dragged on for so long that the major news channels started coordinating what colors they used to represent states that had gone this way or that way for clarity's sake. It made for less of a headache when we all ended up staring at the same fucking electoral map every day for months. Which colors they picked for each party were chosen pretty much at random and nobody expected them to stick around forever, but they did.

Before 2000 you didnt put colours on the map? Dumb burgers hahaha

Jesus, for years I though the Ds were red and the Rs were blue because that's what they used in 1996. I figured I was just remembering wrong. Maybe I was right.

>McGovern
How did he lose? Just look at that name.

Before 2000 they switched colors every election, but after people started using phrases like "red state" and "blue state" they stopped switching them

How can anyone beat a man whose name literally means "to reduce to nothing?" You could run someone named Winner and they'd still get nix'd.

How is Nixon and his presidency viewed by the current american society?

>the democratic symbol is a donkey because when the party was first formed, people mocked them and called them all a bunch of jackasses

why do americans have such a great sense of humor when it comes to this stuff?

But that still doesn't undermine how red is always associated with the Left and blue with the Right. Unless both parties have no real distinction over one another ...

Some boomers who lived through Watergate still have it out for him, but by and large history has been fairly kind to him. His reputation hasn't really been reevaluated but time has healed most of the wounds. Honestly, these days, he's just as likely to be portrayed as a comic figure as a villain.

It's not like he's particularly well thought-of, but he isn't actively reviled.

Here in Aussie straya the Liberal Party is conservative. Our Democrats are called Labour, like in Britbong land.

Before the 2000 election, neither party had a semi-official color. You can find electoral map pics from the 50s-90s with the Republicans colored as blue.

It was only with the election in 2000 that the Republicans=Red/Democrats=Blue narrative was burned into the people's minds, since it was the first year all stations colored the parties as such. The election also dragged on forever when Al Gore tried to get a recount in four democrat stronghold counties in Florida, while also fighting against a recount of the entire state of Florida.

hes literally the devil of baby boomers and due to leftist hollywood, they constantly depict him as such. This is all despite the fact that LBJ, a democrat, was actually much more despised by that generation for his perceived involvement in the assassination of JFK, and his part in basically starting the Vietnam War. A common chant back then that all boomers tell me about, yet I havnt seen in any film, was "hey hey LBJ, how many kids did you kill today?"

We learned it from our British fathers who still are the Kings of Bantz. See our brother Australia as well

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Unironically the best post-Eisenhower president. He set up a lot of reasonable welfare programs, tried to bring back government oversight on corporations to a degree, started the EPA, ended Vietnam, and was a phenomenal diplomat. His single (albeit massive) fuckup unfairly discredited everything else he did.

They didn't switch color, before 2000, TV coverage had the incumbent party as blue, while the opposition was red.

Americans know nothing about NIxon other than watergate and thus he's mostly disliked despite him being one of the most effective presidents ever

That's also how it is in most of the world except for in the US. Or rather, Liberals in other countries are more associated with right-wing politics such as freer markets, less regulation and lower taxes which often puts them on the same side of issues as the Conservatives, and where they are for welfare programs and such they are nowhere as extensive as those proposed by the left wing parties.

Although in Australia liberals means more the American version. The Australian party are called Liberals because the split in Australian politics was between free trade and protectionism

He's seen as "meh" most people recognize his involvement in Watergate and know that was wrong of him to do but his accomplishments are also recognized. It's a shame, if Watergate never happened then he might be considered one of the top ten presidents by a majority of people

Red=international color of Communism.

>and nobody expected them to stick around forever, but they did.
forever is a long time, user

A. Watergate, the game was rigged
B. At the time, Nixon was popular for many reasons firstly that the public credited him with ending Vietnam, not knowing that he had also deliberately prolonged it
C. McGovern's campaign was run like shit and his politics split the Democratic party
D. When an attempt was made on George Wallace's life, Nixon planted evidence that the would-be assassin was a leftist extremist, and used that falsehood to show the "dangers" of McGovern's ideals.

Wasn't George Wallace a cunt though? Why would anyone care if some hero took him out?

You remember how Teddy Roosevelt got shot in his Bull Moose campaign? Imagine learning that Woodrow Wilson ordered that shooting.