Re: OT: A new perspective? ;-)

On Tue, 05 Dec 2006 20:55:01 -0700, the renowned Donald
<Donald@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Richard The Dreaded Libertarian wrote:

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/uclickcomics/20061205/cx_crwiz_uc/crwiz20061205

Cheers!
Rich

Does anyone really know where this red/blue thing came from ??

thanks

donald

According to Wikipedia, something like political (in?)correctness. The
guy making the maps up didn't want to associate the Democrats with
commie red. Apparently only a decade or so old.

The colors reversed (and thus more logical) in the UK and Canada- Red
has long been the color of the Liberal party (Labour in the UK) and
the Conservatives are associated with blue (closer to a cyan than the
ricy blue of the Canadian Tories).

http://www.labour.org.uk/home
http://www.conservatives.com/
http://www.liberal.ca/default_e.aspx
http://www.conservative.ca/




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