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As such, some of the earliest electoral maps, like Scribner’s 1883 Statistical Atlas of the United States, used a red-for-Democrat, blue-for-Republican scheme that would have been familiar to ...
ABC used yellow for Republicans and blue for Democrats in 1976, then red for Republicans and blue for Democrats in 1980, 1984, and 1988. In 1980, when John Anderson had a relatively well publicized campaign as an independent candidate, at least one network indicated provisionally that they would use yellow if he were to win a state.
Prior to 2000, red and blue did not always respectively denote Republicans and Democrats.
Purple is also used to describe populations with a near-equal mix of Democrat (blue) and Republican (red) voters, particularly in the context of Presidential elections. 21st-century election reporting commonly refers to "Purple states" or "Purple counties" as a metaphor for regions where neither party appears to have a clear majority among ...
States that traditionally voted blue (Democratic), but voted Republican in 2016 are marked in red. Minnesota (a historic blue wall state), was won by Democrats by only 1.5% and Maine by 3% in 2016. Additionally, a congressional district in northern Maine gave the GOP one electoral vote.
State Rep. Bill Sutton, a Gardner Republican who ran unopposed but aided other area candidates, said having Harris at the top of the ticket probably hurt Democrats more than Trump hurt Republicans.
Moderates in the Republican Party are an ideologically centrist group that predominantly come from the Northeastern United States, [341] and are typically located in swing states or blue states. Moderate Republican voters are typically highly educated, [269] affluent, fiscally conservative, socially moderate or liberal and often Never Trump.
Penguin – used in some states as a symbol of the Libertarian Party; Porcupine – Libertarian Party. Used as a symbol of the Free State Project in New Hampshire and libertarian ideas and movements in general. Raccoon – Whig Party [19] Red rose – Democratic Socialists of America; Red, white and blue cockade – Democratic-Republican Party