Why red means Republican and blue means Democrat

The major party color schemes, and the terms “red state” and "blue state," are actually a recent phenomenon.
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  • @FIREDRAGON158
    @FIREDRAGON1587 жыл бұрын

    So basically our colors switch because ABC thought, "red for Reagan." Everyone else in the world thinks red for the left party and blue for the right party.

  • @sapphron

    @sapphron

    7 жыл бұрын

    just like meters vs yards. we are the exception!

  • @Sillykat420

    @Sillykat420

    7 жыл бұрын

    Yep. Here in the UK conservatives are blue and labour party is red. On top of this, we also have the right wing UKIP which is purple and the left wing green party which is, unsurprisingly, green.

  • @kalvincastro9042

    @kalvincastro9042

    7 жыл бұрын

    FIREDRAGON158 I assumed it was "Red for Republican" and Democrats got blue because it's a popular color against red and part of the "red white and blue" color scheme.

  • @MrFerdimand

    @MrFerdimand

    6 жыл бұрын

    KZreadr What?

  • @TheRazorTongue

    @TheRazorTongue

    6 жыл бұрын

    'Murica!!!

  • @rejvaik00
    @rejvaik007 жыл бұрын

    Am I going color blind? Casue i swear that map with Alabama was green

  • @robertjenkins6132

    @robertjenkins6132

    7 жыл бұрын

    I was just about to comment the same thing.

  • @VishalShah2799

    @VishalShah2799

    7 жыл бұрын

    It could be a problem with your monitor as not all monitors represent colors the same way.

  • @robertjenkins6132

    @robertjenkins6132

    7 жыл бұрын

    Vishal Shah Go to 1:09 and look carefully at the lower right corner of the TV. You will see three colored circles above the word "TRINITRON": Red, Green, and Blue, in the traditional RGB order. The color of Alabama is like a dark version of the middle color, which is green. It might be on the boundary of greenish-bluish, but it's definitely not pure blue (0, 0, 255). Pure Republican Green.

  • @seabb

    @seabb

    7 жыл бұрын

    Your default profile picture color is that color.

  • @seabb

    @seabb

    7 жыл бұрын

    And also, I think the issue is with the old tv screen. You see how the red state has a bit of an orange tinge to it? I think the whole screen has a yellow tinge to it and that's where you're getting that green.

  • @JonDoe-op9sq
    @JonDoe-op9sq7 жыл бұрын

    I'm pretty sure it was white and gold.

  • @SnoozeTheRecluse

    @SnoozeTheRecluse

    7 жыл бұрын

    No it's Patrick

  • @eoghan.5003

    @eoghan.5003

    4 жыл бұрын

    Definitely Laurel

  • @matthewbish2082

    @matthewbish2082

    4 жыл бұрын

    Jon Doe omgggggg

  • @selinwang6171

    @selinwang6171

    4 жыл бұрын

    Nono, it’s turquoise and grey!

  • @gjk-arts5855

    @gjk-arts5855

    3 жыл бұрын

    Blue and black

  • @ThePowerofJames
    @ThePowerofJames3 жыл бұрын

    The rest of the world: Metric, celcius, and Liberals are red Conservatives are blue The US: We do it right, the rest of you are wrong

  • @kiwikiwi2483

    @kiwikiwi2483

    3 жыл бұрын

    Not every country need to be the same

  • @Cnut_the_grape

    @Cnut_the_grape

    3 жыл бұрын

    It's just colours lad

  • @misterlee6770

    @misterlee6770

    3 жыл бұрын

    Also in Korea, democratics are blue and conservatives are red.

  • @alejandroibanez5110

    @alejandroibanez5110

    3 жыл бұрын

    Here in Colombia conservative is blue and liberal is red

  • @sujalparad5483

    @sujalparad5483

    3 жыл бұрын

    In India, we have BJP(Bhartiya Janta Party), Indian National Congress, Shiv Sena.

  • @TheRealSyncRow
    @TheRealSyncRow7 жыл бұрын

    Thought that blue in 1972 was green?

  • @spaceunicorn

    @spaceunicorn

    7 жыл бұрын

    I'm paranoid that I'm colorblind now

  • @CostaLara

    @CostaLara

    7 жыл бұрын

    Alabama is like that dress.

  • @lolpauve

    @lolpauve

    7 жыл бұрын

    Well I have red/green colorblindness (the most common one, found with 6-8% of European males) and I see it as green so it's not out of the question. It's very mild though.

  • @Tsskyx

    @Tsskyx

    7 жыл бұрын

    It's the quality of the image. Remember that TV colors weren't so sharp back in 1972.

  • @Lius525

    @Lius525

    7 жыл бұрын

    Jesus christ it's blue dress again all over again isn't it?

  • @seahawk124
    @seahawk1247 жыл бұрын

    For us colour blind people, this video was a nightmare!

  • @auDipquid

    @auDipquid

    7 жыл бұрын

    Colors are amazing! You don't know what you're missing.

  • @uetzel

    @uetzel

    7 жыл бұрын

    anime must look really shitty to you

  • @lilbihxxx1234

    @lilbihxxx1234

    7 жыл бұрын

    You are going to have to look at the percentages tonight then.

  • @reddy4play

    @reddy4play

    6 жыл бұрын

    Red and Blue literally cannot be mixed up, unless you're one of the 0.01% of black-white colour blind people. Even then, blue would be darker and red would be lighter. Something's fishy here.

  • @liquidmantle

    @liquidmantle

    6 жыл бұрын

    Blue states and green states

  • @TheJRSvideos
    @TheJRSvideos2 жыл бұрын

    The rest of the world: “Red is left, blue is conservative.” USA: “RED FOR REAGAN!”

  • @AniPlayFilms
    @AniPlayFilms7 жыл бұрын

    in Canada, it's the opposite. red means liberals and blue means conservatives. and orange means socialist

  • @1h3art_mys3lf-

    @1h3art_mys3lf-

    6 жыл бұрын

    Lmao and America is quickly falling behind

  • @CortoMalteaser

    @CortoMalteaser

    6 жыл бұрын

    techn0vids Canada is in much better condition than the us, we have much lower poverty and better healthcare, as well as affordable university and we aren't governed by a sicko, this is all socialist traits combined with capitalism. In America there's huge gun crime, poverty and people die without healthcare all the time because of greedy corporations.

  • @CortoMalteaser

    @CortoMalteaser

    6 жыл бұрын

    The young Republican orange is the Ndp party, a party slightly more liberal than the liberals, but there's nothing wrong with being socialist.

  • @CortoMalteaser

    @CortoMalteaser

    6 жыл бұрын

    Matt G ironic how everything you just said was wrong. Canada has better healthcare and almost nobody dies due to lack of it. In America there's gun crime and tons of poverty, and you all get screwed by large corporations

  • @sidewalkalfletcher1360

    @sidewalkalfletcher1360

    6 жыл бұрын

    In America orange means criminal

  • @hijack69
    @hijack697 жыл бұрын

    But this year its Blue and Orange

  • @GentlemanWiz

    @GentlemanWiz

    7 жыл бұрын

    if being orange is a crime...

  • @theimmortal4718

    @theimmortal4718

    7 жыл бұрын

    no its red and gray, since hillary is dying

  • @theimmortal4718

    @theimmortal4718

    7 жыл бұрын

    you're right. orange and grey

  • @doctorwrm

    @doctorwrm

    7 жыл бұрын

    Yes, because minor medical issues are the real reason why Clinton shouldn't be president.

  • @101jir

    @101jir

    7 жыл бұрын

    This year is orange and black: orange for a criminal, black for fascism.

  • @Richie_P
    @Richie_P7 жыл бұрын

    Up until election night, 2000, I had always imagined the republican party as blue and the democratic party as red, precisely because red is the color of leftism. I remember looking at the Bush-Gore election map and being like, "What the hell? They got the colors backwards!"

  • @brettduch

    @brettduch

    7 жыл бұрын

    In Canada the Liberals (left) are red and the Conservatives (right) are blue.

  • @maxwellerickson7066

    @maxwellerickson7066

    7 жыл бұрын

    Democrats are almost defined by their support for personal liberty (liberal social policy) and government-heavy economics, compared to restrictive personal choice (conservative social policy) and economic minimalism for the Republicans. I'm not sure where you're coming from but it's all right if you were just confused. Also, the Republicans are on the left? That's an odd statement. No civilised nation has a more far-right socially conservative party on such a scale. You seem to be saying that everything more progressive than fascism is on the left.

  • @Tyke91

    @Tyke91

    7 жыл бұрын

    As a Canadian and a satanic atheist, I question your assertion that I live in a theocracy.

  • @Tyke91

    @Tyke91

    7 жыл бұрын

    ... The current Primate of the anglican church in Canada is Fred Hiltz, our current Prime Minister is Justin Trudeau. Our current queen is Elizabeth II. The Archbishop of Canterbury (The closest thing that the anglican church has to a pope) is Justin Welby. 10/10 troll, no sarcasm. Well done.

  • @Tyke91

    @Tyke91

    7 жыл бұрын

    ***** lol. Elizabeth couldn't give a rat's ass about imposing theocratic power on Canada. Her job is to be the metaphorical personification of the State, similar to the land that it is built upon. It is in her job description to be politically neutral. If you don't know this, you know even even less about our country than I thought you did. If the queen were to apply political power to Canada, she would do it through her Governor General - not through the Anglican Church of Canada. The Anglican Church would exert its power through the Primate or the Archbishop of Canterbury, the queen has nothing to do with their day to day business. It's almost like you're confusing symbolic figureheads with actual statesmen. Furthermore, it's impossible for an abrahimic theology to exist in a state with religious freedom. Commandment #1 is "you shall have no gods before me", and Canadians are allowed to worship (or not worship) any god(s) they desire. Your silly "Last Post" shenanigans are just a cop out so that you can leave the conversation on empty assertions and ignorance. You must be a blast to hang out with in real life.

  • @mz9791
    @mz97917 жыл бұрын

    Am I blind or was that green

  • @ninja.saywhat

    @ninja.saywhat

    7 жыл бұрын

    and i thought i was color blind there for a second

  • @joedittmann5377

    @joedittmann5377

    6 жыл бұрын

    It looks like yellow to me

  • @nexus1g

    @nexus1g

    6 жыл бұрын

    1:07, it's blue and 1:09, it's green (really more of a teal since there is still some blue in there). Probably just degradation of the celluloid. In the close-up image, you can also see the states being more orange than red but the legend is clearly red. You're not blind.

  • @nexus1g

    @nexus1g

    6 жыл бұрын

    Joe, you may have deuteranomaly color blindness. It's a difficulty in seeing green. The colors are green majority with an ever so slight blue. There's no yellow.

  • @HayTatsuko

    @HayTatsuko

    6 жыл бұрын

    Nope, that was very much greenish. I suspect it was originally blue, though.

  • @AwesumBear
    @AwesumBear4 жыл бұрын

    I wonder if this helped drive the entire "us" vs "them" mentality that we see in politics today.

  • @amethystblue6355

    @amethystblue6355

    4 жыл бұрын

    Kinda sad actually

  • @amethystblue6355

    @amethystblue6355

    4 жыл бұрын

    I wish Republicans and Democrats would be open minded for once and actually form a better, more advanced opinion rather than enforcing there own beliefs which would then lead to a better government, economy, and life

  • @TheAnthraxBiology
    @TheAnthraxBiology7 жыл бұрын

    Nearly every other country has Left red, Right blue. Why must you be different?!

  • @TheHappyHuntsman

    @TheHappyHuntsman

    7 жыл бұрын

    We think we are special

  • @tremolo2109

    @tremolo2109

    7 жыл бұрын

    "Other" country? What?

  • @littlemisscupcake9280

    @littlemisscupcake9280

    7 жыл бұрын

    We're also the same country that uses pounds and fahrenheit.. ah america.. rip

  • @tannerdavis212

    @tannerdavis212

    7 жыл бұрын

    As I'm sure you know, red has often been associated with communism, and left-leaning TV networks in America probably don't want to associate the Democratic party with communism by using red. I don't think that it was to set ourselves apart from other countries. It is very puzzling, though.

  • @stevenjohnson5165

    @stevenjohnson5165

    7 жыл бұрын

    It's the same thing in my country (Macedonia) the Conservatives(Right-Wing) use red while the Social-Democrats(Left-Wing) use blue I'm not exactly sure why this is the case.

  • @PabloBatistaArq
    @PabloBatistaArq7 жыл бұрын

    this is just like the history of the "blue is for boys and pink is for girls" thing. It's just a recent, made-up, wierd thing

  • @SuperRat420

    @SuperRat420

    7 жыл бұрын

    Pretty much, yes, recently. Even in the 19th century, pink was a color for boys. And it didn't flip like a switch come the 20th.

  • @SuperRat420

    @SuperRat420

    7 жыл бұрын

    ***** Problem is you really can't have one without the other. No real reason to differentiate in the first place. If there really is a significant difference due to sex, it'll be made apparent though design.

  • @TheSunlitLeaf

    @TheSunlitLeaf

    7 жыл бұрын

    Ugh, the colours for kids thing! I hate it! When my daughter was little, her favourite colour was red. It is so hard to find red clothing for little girls. I had to look in the boys section and most of that had stuff on it like "handsome like Daddy!" Even now, when she's 5, we shop in the boys' section as well as the girls' because she loves Thomas the Tank Engine and Paw Patrol and Star Wars, none of which can be found in the girls section. And just try to find a dinosaur shirt aimed at girls! On the other hand I have my sister fighting tooth and nail to keep her little boys from ever wearing colours she considers to be girly, and buying presents for them is scary because I never know what normal toy is going to be too feminine for her taste. I say, let's let colours be colours, clothes be clothes, and toys be toys. Life's just too short to worry about crap like this!

  • @TheSunlitLeaf

    @TheSunlitLeaf

    7 жыл бұрын

    lol we got tired of our baby girl being called a baby boy, so we put her in more pink than I really liked. People still walked up and asked what "his" name was and "how old is he?" Since then I haven't given a darn. lol

  • @jaschabull2365

    @jaschabull2365

    7 жыл бұрын

    Though according to another Vox video, this is even more recent than gendered colours, which apparently is mainly ultimately because First Lady Eisenhower liked pink.

  • @gurnawazgill8576
    @gurnawazgill85764 жыл бұрын

    In Canada: Blue (conservative, right) Red (liberal, centre left) Orange (social democratic, far left) Green (environmental party, slightly farther left) Purple (nationalist, far right)

  • @gamingthisera6339

    @gamingthisera6339

    4 жыл бұрын

    Purple looks badass

  • @gurnawazgill8576

    @gurnawazgill8576

    4 жыл бұрын

    Original never heard of that. Are you talking about the separatist party, cause they are light blue (Quebec) and black (west)

  • @jonaboktr5269

    @jonaboktr5269

    3 жыл бұрын

    Gurnawaz Gill this is true (fellow Canadian)

  • @owl2944

    @owl2944

    3 жыл бұрын

    the ndp is far from far left

  • @JastwatchingYT

    @JastwatchingYT

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@owl2944 Isn't ndp more yellowish?

  • @ozyman_dias
    @ozyman_dias3 жыл бұрын

    In Germany: Red - Far Left & Social Democrats Green - ecological party Yellow - Liberals Black - Conservatives Blue - Far Right

  • @mr.anderson2241

    @mr.anderson2241

    3 жыл бұрын

    How did the conservatives in Germany end up as black? Is this supposed to be in reference to Prussia?

  • @ozyman_dias

    @ozyman_dias

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@mr.anderson2241 They didnt choose it as their colour but their opponents chose it for them. Because the Conservatives take religious values serious, like priests who wear black clothes

  • @mr.anderson2241

    @mr.anderson2241

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@ozyman_dias ah I see the correlation now that you mention it. Kinda odd since typically the black is more associated with Catholic priests, would expect it to be the colors for like a Bavarian Christian party

  • @bobing1752

    @bobing1752

    3 жыл бұрын

    More than 2 parties?? What kind of magic is this???

  • @TacticalSpray
    @TacticalSpray7 жыл бұрын

    Interesting and ... yet non political? well done, nice.

  • @TacticalSpray

    @TacticalSpray

    7 жыл бұрын

    i meant in terms of bias.. It was not "another reason why we hate the republicans" it seemed reasonably neutral...

  • @JimCullen

    @JimCullen

    7 жыл бұрын

    Non-partisan is probably a less ambiguous term you could have used.

  • @TacticalSpray

    @TacticalSpray

    7 жыл бұрын

    Yes I could have made that a bit clearer you are right.

  • @TheSunlitLeaf

    @TheSunlitLeaf

    7 жыл бұрын

    I think we all knew what you meant to say. And I agree, it was refreshing.

  • @TacticalSpray

    @TacticalSpray

    7 жыл бұрын

    ***** because its the internet bro no hard feelings.

  • @ShizukaRose
    @ShizukaRose7 жыл бұрын

    I noticed politicians also incorporate these colors into their wardrobes. Red ties v blue ties

  • @alcarbo8613

    @alcarbo8613

    3 жыл бұрын

    Yes American Politics are increasingly becoming like British Politics when it comes to colors

  • @susanlowy3947

    @susanlowy3947

    3 жыл бұрын

    Although Trump wore blue tie and Clinton had red dress.

  • @susanlowy3947

    @susanlowy3947

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@goitsimodimomadue8053 Where'd u get that from?

  • @N.A525

    @N.A525

    2 жыл бұрын

    Always dark suits

  • @insertfunnyhandle77
    @insertfunnyhandle773 жыл бұрын

    _could everyone stop talking about politics when this video’s about colors_

  • @beccabrns1723

    @beccabrns1723

    3 жыл бұрын

    It's about political colours. What do you expect?

  • @mgriff39
    @mgriff392 жыл бұрын

    I started working in television in 1979. One of the first things I remember about election coverage was the guy in the graphics department explaining the two colors he picked for the different parties. I don't remember the two colors but I do remember him explaining that it look different in the grayscale. Back then a lot of people still owned black-and-white televisions and the two colors you pick had to look different in black-and-white...

  • @randomcomplex6155
    @randomcomplex61557 жыл бұрын

    *♪RED STATE BARBECUE♪*

  • @Actiaeon

    @Actiaeon

    7 жыл бұрын

    It's actually good barbecue

  • @cranberry7601

    @cranberry7601

    6 жыл бұрын

    Random Complex ayy fellow jacks films watcher

  • @bonrind
    @bonrind7 жыл бұрын

    Crips vs Bloods

  • @wrongpingpong

    @wrongpingpong

    7 жыл бұрын

    Democrips vs Rebloodicans

  • @solidkingcobra

    @solidkingcobra

    7 жыл бұрын

    so do you mean crippled by birth or crippled by accident?

  • @Pxrish

    @Pxrish

    7 жыл бұрын

    +Magnus McCloud its was a joke lol

  • @AlopeciaPatientx

    @AlopeciaPatientx

    6 жыл бұрын

    Magnus McCloud Lol South Park

  • @user-jx1rs5my4u

    @user-jx1rs5my4u

    3 жыл бұрын

    Grove Street Vs ballas

  • @babyzorilla
    @babyzorilla7 жыл бұрын

    ow my brain, it's learning

  • @zackiechan2601

    @zackiechan2601

    3 жыл бұрын

    Thats the liberals for yah

  • @rseestella2296

    @rseestella2296

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@zackiechan2601 😂😂 you guys are so desperate, gotta take a shot at the Liberals anytime you get. Don’t you ever get tired of embarrassing yourself?

  • @nooblord1233

    @nooblord1233

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@rseestella2296 fight fire with fire i guess

  • @dabro4963
    @dabro49637 жыл бұрын

    America needs a third party desperately.

  • @SnoozeTheRecluse

    @SnoozeTheRecluse

    7 жыл бұрын

    Why?

  • @xhaanfilms2479

    @xhaanfilms2479

    7 жыл бұрын

    They got Green and Liberal, and they have less than 10% of the vote when combined

  • @1980rlquinn

    @1980rlquinn

    7 жыл бұрын

    The voting system would need a serious revamping for that to ever happen. Even if a third party gains popularity, one of the existing parties would just fade as it all settles back into a two-party system.

  • @dabro4963

    @dabro4963

    7 жыл бұрын

    1980rlquinn dint think of that scenario. Interesting take.

  • @Marylandbrony

    @Marylandbrony

    7 жыл бұрын

    Problem is that two are niche parties with little support beyond there base and people don't have a widely known alternative.

  • @Olodus
    @Olodus7 жыл бұрын

    Good video. Always wondered this, since in Sweden we use red as the color of our left (parties like the Social Democrats) and blue for our right (conservative parties and the like). As you mentioned in the video I though this was a quite global color scheme. Even though even our right leaning parties would probably be deep deep blue in American eyes.

  • @Legionaairre

    @Legionaairre

    7 жыл бұрын

    Red is left and blue is conservative (and yellow is liberal/centre) all over the world EXCEPT America for some reason.

  • @that_pac123

    @that_pac123

    7 жыл бұрын

    It's like that everywhere that isn't America. In the EU too ofcourse, it's like that in France. It should seem like a blatant contradiction what with conservative America's "better dead than red" slogan. It might have to do with the Democratic and Republican parties doing a complete flip in political orientation, but I haven't watched the video yet, and perhaps after I may know for certain.

  • @Serviss09

    @Serviss09

    7 жыл бұрын

    Yep Canada also has Liberal red and Torie Blue.

  • @ylette

    @ylette

    7 жыл бұрын

    Swedish Social Democrats, aka Swedish Suicidal Democrats.

  • @magnushmann

    @magnushmann

    7 жыл бұрын

    In Denmark, all parties are very different colors, but when the "blocks" get simplified, red are the social democratic leaning parties and blue are the liberal leaning parties. The conservative parties are usually grouped with the liberal leaning parties, due to the numerous similarities in their policy stances, I guess.

  • @DizzyWolf01
    @DizzyWolf017 жыл бұрын

    This has always been confusing to Brits since, as you say, the red is left (labour) and conservative right is blue

  • @icameherejusttocomment550

    @icameherejusttocomment550

    5 жыл бұрын

    DizzyWolf01 And the Lib Dems are yellow. Also, at times, Labour was more right than the Conservative Party (New Labour vs 1960s Tories)

  • @DieFlabbergast

    @DieFlabbergast

    5 жыл бұрын

    Not just to us Brits - to everyone else in the world!

  • @ShamanMcLamie
    @ShamanMcLamie7 жыл бұрын

    I heard the main reason Republicans were given Red is because they both start with the same letter. Democrats were given Blue because that's what was left.

  • @supremeastro5300

    @supremeastro5300

    3 жыл бұрын

    nice pun

  • @exyzt9877

    @exyzt9877

    Жыл бұрын

    I mean, the actual reason is because the news liked the idea of "Red for Reagan" and that stuck.

  • @darkshadows65
    @darkshadows656 жыл бұрын

    Highly informative, well-researched, and yet not dripping with bias. In fact, not an ounce of bias. I remember when the news was like that. Very nice, well done!

  • @thegreatwalrus6574
    @thegreatwalrus65747 жыл бұрын

    Red is still liberal in Canada.

  • @daviderenda9211

    @daviderenda9211

    7 жыл бұрын

    Also in nearly all the rest of the world

  • @hamzarashad8244

    @hamzarashad8244

    7 жыл бұрын

    and blue is conservative

  • @loissimmons109

    @loissimmons109

    7 жыл бұрын

    As someone who remembers the maps in the US History textbooks long before color TV was widespread, Republicans were always depicted as the blue states and Democrats as the red states. I also remember commentators referring to Republican or Conservative values and states as being "blue state" and the corresponding "red state" term for Democrat or Liberal values and states. The only thing surprising to me in this video is that it took NBC so long to get the memo to disassociate an increasingly left leaning Democratic Party from the very established symbolism in the culture of red with communism, socialism and liberalism. (And I write this as someone who agrees with the Democratic Party on a number of issues, particularly in the area of Civil Rights and Social Justice.)

  • @every116

    @every116

    7 жыл бұрын

    Yeah, I distictly remember back in second grade when we first learned about the political system in clas that Democrats were red and Republicans were blue. as well.

  • @anngan5045

    @anngan5045

    7 жыл бұрын

    Fascists like their most extreme example, Hitler, actually taxed rich very low (highest income tax rate 12% when at the same time in Roosevelt's America under New Deal it was over 90%) and their economy was based on huge private corporations like IG Farbenindustrie, which build concentration camps and participated in crimes against humanity for private profit.

  • @2HRTS1LOVE
    @2HRTS1LOVE7 жыл бұрын

    I knew I remembered a blue Reagan map from when I was a kid. Thought I was going crazy. Or crazier. Whatever.

  • @2HRTS1LOVE

    @2HRTS1LOVE

    7 жыл бұрын

    ***** Who are you calling elder?!!? ;) Lol, I was talking about the election with my teenage son, and I told him of the 84 election, when the entire map was blue except for Mondale's home state of Minnesota, and he said, "You mean red?", and at first I thought I'd just mixed it up. But it bugged me, because I remembered that dang blue map, so I had to look it up, and yay! I'm not going senile yet.

  • @brian1206

    @brian1206

    7 жыл бұрын

    +OGSpaceCadet He said he's surprised that AN elder didn't tell him this. He's not talking about you.

  • @2HRTS1LOVE

    @2HRTS1LOVE

    7 жыл бұрын

    Brian Connolly It was a joke. See the winkie and lol? Lighten up, Francis.

  • @therealwewin

    @therealwewin

    Жыл бұрын

    @@2HRTS1LOVE it was blue. Vox is rewriting history and gaslighting you.

  • @ramiro041
    @ramiro0415 жыл бұрын

    3:08 thanks i really needed you to ad that audio comentary, no way i could have figured it out myself

  • @jaschabull2365
    @jaschabull23657 жыл бұрын

    "It might seem very strange to see blue used to represent the conservative party." Any other Canadians get a chuckle from this?

  • @alostnerd7032

    @alostnerd7032

    4 жыл бұрын

    yes

  • @fishergreer36

    @fishergreer36

    2 жыл бұрын

    Yep

  • @a_little_bird
    @a_little_bird7 жыл бұрын

    love the edits on these videos. they're spectacular and the quality is always top notch. Thanks Vox!

  • @liteyagami6364
    @liteyagami63647 жыл бұрын

    When one of Vox's videos about the political system isn't in the least politically charged.

  • @danielcorrigan8805
    @danielcorrigan88053 жыл бұрын

    As a Canadian this always confused me. I once thought Republicans were liberal and Democrats were conservatives because of the colours.

  • @fos1451

    @fos1451

    2 жыл бұрын

    They used to be

  • @gerardanderson9665

    @gerardanderson9665

    Жыл бұрын

    @@fos1451 party switch

  • @plpong893

    @plpong893

    Жыл бұрын

    That was the case until 1920.

  • @thomasedwardharrison2879

    @thomasedwardharrison2879

    Жыл бұрын

    They were until the 20’s - 30’s

  • @robfromvan

    @robfromvan

    Жыл бұрын

    This is complicated by the fact that Republican platforms were once considered liberal so now people who are conservative call themselves “classical liberal” which is actually closer to being a liberterian, whereas Democrats favour all kinds of regulatory controls on the economy, which a classical liberal would consider very illiberal.

  • @LK-dx2oq
    @LK-dx2oq2 жыл бұрын

    Thank You! This was very interesting.

  • @maddie-bw5ue
    @maddie-bw5ue7 жыл бұрын

    Your videos are so aestheticly pleasing Why can't I be like that? Cries*

  • @RealGraySkyMusic
    @RealGraySkyMusic3 жыл бұрын

    Red - color of anger & rage Blue - color of tranquility & safety

  • @tobyvarhaugvik12

    @tobyvarhaugvik12

    3 жыл бұрын

    Red can also mean love and affection, while blue can mean sorrow and loneliness. It really is a matter of personal preference!

  • @Deborahtunes
    @Deborahtunes3 жыл бұрын

    Thank you for sharing this. I had heard about the switch, but couldn't find any information on it...

  • @Dishasareen_
    @Dishasareen_7 жыл бұрын

    very informative video. good job!!!!

  • @Germaco
    @Germaco2 жыл бұрын

    In Germany the blues are the AfD ( Alternative for Germany ) which is a right wing party, The reds are the SPD ( Social democratic Party Germany ) which are left wings

  • @the-sands-of-time
    @the-sands-of-time2 жыл бұрын

    *The logical explanation:* 1:57 Blue has historically represented the Union Army (which was led by a Republican), and red is already associated with left-wing parties around the world. *Murica:* 2:52 lol red and reagan both start with the letter "r"

  • @thejunks3597
    @thejunks35977 жыл бұрын

    one of the best Vox has done in a while without all the damn bias

  • @itswavo
    @itswavo3 жыл бұрын

    the nostalgia i get when i see how curved, small and low quality TV’s used to be

  • @liamdavis2387
    @liamdavis23877 жыл бұрын

    Vox: "What? There are OTHER countries outside of America? I... I need to sit down."

  • @mayurkulkarni1990
    @mayurkulkarni19907 жыл бұрын

    always so much efforts Vox puts into their content, I wonder why only they got 1M subs

  • @spoof8504

    @spoof8504

    7 жыл бұрын

    its because of youtube's algorithm, this content is as exposed to viewers as other channels are

  • @realazduffman
    @realazduffman7 жыл бұрын

    One other reason for red and blue was probably that those colors showed best in early color sets vs. say yellow.

  • @Anonymous-df8it

    @Anonymous-df8it

    2 жыл бұрын

    Or, you know, they could have used black vs white which would have shown up even better!

  • @richardwoodson2171
    @richardwoodson21717 жыл бұрын

    Great Message,!!!

  • @chordcaster
    @chordcaster7 жыл бұрын

    In a curious twist, you can form the word "red" from the letters in "DEmocRat", and "blue" from the letters in "rEpUBLican", although that's the opposite of what the colors represent (so maybe they should switch it?).

  • @5ab14
    @5ab147 жыл бұрын

    Politics? NOW I'M ANGRY

  • @ThZuao

    @ThZuao

    7 жыл бұрын

    TRIGGERED!!

  • @CouchLock

    @CouchLock

    7 жыл бұрын

    IMMA FIRIN MAH LAZAR!! BLAAAAAAAAAHHH!!!!

  • @lydiawong8238
    @lydiawong82386 жыл бұрын

    So interesting!!

  • @franticranter
    @franticranter5 жыл бұрын

    What i've always found weird is that i'm from the uk, and i'm used to red being left for labour and blue being right for tories.

  • @LucasBenderChannel
    @LucasBenderChannel3 жыл бұрын

    It's astounding that the US, with all its media proficiency, didn't have party colors until the turn of the millenium. In Germany the color red has been used by the SPD since the late 19th century. Bascially all our party colors are more than 100 years old, or at least trace their origins back to older iterations of their ideologies. Weird.

  • @chraman169
    @chraman1697 жыл бұрын

    Red means socialist here.

  • @felixfeliciano7011

    @felixfeliciano7011

    7 жыл бұрын

    Yep. Often when I hear of people trying to distance themselves from the Republican/Democrat dichotomy they will refer to themselves as "Socially Liberal and Fiscally Conservative." It doesn't help that a large number of registered "independents" are often left leaning. This of course is a huge issue for them as they are often forced to vote one way or the other, usually in opposition of the group they fear the most. If they vote Democrat, they are accused of being weak Democrats. If they vote Republican, they are accused of being traitors. Either way, they end up voting against their own interests because the other side ends up being worse for them. This is a huge shame for everyone else though as while a large number of Republicans and a smaller but still significant number of Democrats want as little compromise on their issues as possible, the swing voters DO want compromise. That is why top democrats are so conservative, because if they become extreme, they risk losing those left leaning swing voters. Meanwhile the extremely left Democrats have no choice BUT to vote for them anyway. What is their alternative? Vote for the Republicans whom they hate? Cote for a third party that inevitably steals votes from their own side ensuring the Republicans win anyway? Its insanity.

  • @greenbutter3190
    @greenbutter31903 жыл бұрын

    Stable video👍

  • @JoJo-xp6wr
    @JoJo-xp6wr3 жыл бұрын

    The outro was great

  • @TheCpHaddock
    @TheCpHaddock3 жыл бұрын

    American exceptionalism: Imperial system instead of metric, use blue for the left-leaning party instead of red and call football soccer!

  • @rhodawatkins4516

    @rhodawatkins4516

    3 жыл бұрын

    Our country is different from other countries. And then there's Texas, which prides itself on being even more different than the rest of the country.

  • @jakeweberzwier8655

    @jakeweberzwier8655

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@rhodawatkins4516 and then there's Commifornia😕

  • @thematthew761

    @thematthew761

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@jakeweberzwier8655 California is neoliberal

  • @jakeweberzwier8655

    @jakeweberzwier8655

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@thematthew761 there's no difference 😎

  • @thematthew761

    @thematthew761

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@jakeweberzwier8655 Communism=Neoliberal? What?

  • @glb0768
    @glb07687 жыл бұрын

    I think this shows the sway that media, even in early color television, has on the public. It's really amazing what kind of power those handfuls of news anchors have and practice every day.

  • @memewarveteran2043

    @memewarveteran2043

    7 жыл бұрын

    If you were actually Jesus you wouldn't care the least bit about politics.

  • @glb0768

    @glb0768

    7 жыл бұрын

    HDMI Is Life I mean why wouldnt I care about the fate a nation chooses for itself and how is shapes over time?

  • @chopinbloc

    @chopinbloc

    7 жыл бұрын

    Jesus didn't engage in politics but He certainly cared about politics.

  • @memewarveteran2043

    @memewarveteran2043

    7 жыл бұрын

    Jesus Sorry, if your gonna have that name at least try to represent the way he thought.

  • @glb0768

    @glb0768

    7 жыл бұрын

    HDMI Is Life just cause yall went to church dont mean you know me

  • @jred7
    @jred77 жыл бұрын

    Wow! That song is dope!

  • @ojaskanade9048
    @ojaskanade90483 жыл бұрын

    You get my like just for the song!

  • @truetuesday4
    @truetuesday45 жыл бұрын

    Minnesota isn’t a purple state! We’re the longest running blue state!

  • @springbok4015
    @springbok40157 жыл бұрын

    Because red is evil. Duh

  • @HeatherSpoonheim
    @HeatherSpoonheim7 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for this one - for some reason I just had it in my head that red/blue went back to Carter. Still seems that way, in my head.

  • @alcarbo8613

    @alcarbo8613

    3 жыл бұрын

    While technically it it did the First time Republicans where Red and Democrats where Blue was on ABC in 1980 and Carter was President in 1980

  • @maa1649
    @maa16493 жыл бұрын

    I was most impressed by the singing 🎤 of the television anchorman. That was a ok song 😂

  • @osipoff444
    @osipoff4446 жыл бұрын

    A very informative and insightful video by Vox. However, it fell short of explaining why the parties swapped the colors, which kind of contradicts the title. Is it really just because of the "R is for Reagan" thing? Or there's some truth in what some people in the comment section describe as journalists' desire to prevent the Democrats from being associated with the communists?

  • @applesyrupgaming

    @applesyrupgaming

    3 жыл бұрын

    both

  • @IvanDankinov
    @IvanDankinov7 жыл бұрын

    All good and interesting And then that song ... I lost it ... (rofl)

  • @Davey-TheDJ
    @Davey-TheDJ5 жыл бұрын

    I kinda like that song played at the end!🎧😎

  • @prosamuraigaming1972
    @prosamuraigaming19723 жыл бұрын

    Vox:"Alabama is Blue" Comments:"Alabama is green" *Blue was the imposter*

  • @imaxdigital7052
    @imaxdigital70527 жыл бұрын

    WTF... Thats green, not blue. Don't reply if you saw green, just reply if you saw Blue. Did anyone see Blue???

  • @Suedocode

    @Suedocode

    7 жыл бұрын

    What if I saw it as purple? Do I still respond? Oh no, but now that I have... What have I done?

  • @arthinox3317

    @arthinox3317

    7 жыл бұрын

    It's cyan for me.

  • @manonthemoon2815

    @manonthemoon2815

    7 жыл бұрын

    I SAW GREEN

  • @WilliamAndrea

    @WilliamAndrea

    7 жыл бұрын

    It was white and gold for me

  • @SkeleCrafteronYT

    @SkeleCrafteronYT

    7 жыл бұрын

    Not deep blue but still blue

  • @user-gl3cu4re7j
    @user-gl3cu4re7j3 жыл бұрын

    I always thought Democrats were blue for water. And Republicans were fire. Made more sense to me. Democrats sometimes put out the fire Y’know?

  • @slugoo6474

    @slugoo6474

    3 жыл бұрын

    Or start them lol. 2020 for example.

  • @realsmollbean

    @realsmollbean

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@slugoo6474 Ok we are done here, please stop leaving your ignorant little remarks about the BLM protests, let me explain. The rioters in the BLM protests are NOT protesters. They are simply selfish beings who look out for themselves in: Stealing from stores, vandalizing for revenge, vandalizing for fun. They do not care about the message at all and simply want for themselves, some might even be Trump supports you never know. So let me be very clear, these are NOT BLM protesters, they are selfish people doing selfish things. It is so embarrassing that BLM is associated with this behavior, so GET YOUR FACTS STRAIGHT.

  • @jonboybilly
    @jonboybilly7 жыл бұрын

    I love this channel because it provides information and education in an effective and entertaining way. Keep it up VOX!

  • @Roxor128
    @Roxor1287 жыл бұрын

    This makes US politics confusing. You've got the colours the opposite way round from us. In Australia, we're used to seeing the Liberal party (centre-right) in blue and Labour (centre-left) in red.

  • @MsVilma1970
    @MsVilma19702 жыл бұрын

    Glad I'm not the only one who thought the Republicans were blue and the Democrats were red!

  • @johnweber4577

    @johnweber4577

    2 жыл бұрын

    It would just make so much more sense if that color association stuck. Lol

  • @jtszabo1691
    @jtszabo16914 жыл бұрын

    I’m 33, that explains why I got red and blue mixed up in my teen years lol

  • @TheSunlitLeaf
    @TheSunlitLeaf7 жыл бұрын

    Watching this, I don't feel so bad about never being able to remember what "color" I am or which color I'm hoping my state will turn on the map. I've been watching the news since I was a very small child in the 80s (I remember seeing stuff about Iran Contra when I was 2 2 1/2, for instance) so it's no wonder I'm confused. Maybe this will help me remember! And that Harry Smith performance cracked me up :D

  • @experimental2.372
    @experimental2.3727 жыл бұрын

    Lol. That early 2000s "Apex" tv

  • @foreigncarsrule
    @foreigncarsrule5 жыл бұрын

    Ha ha this is awesome! 😆🤣 I love it. My favorite color is red ironically but my political views are as blue as the ocean for the most part.

  • @vortex_master
    @vortex_master7 жыл бұрын

    I'm a liberal in Kentucky, and I must say Red State BBQ is delicious. They name their different sauces after different "Red States." Which also happen to be known for different styles of barbeque, such as Texas, Tennessee, and Carolina.

  • @abdul-hameed
    @abdul-hameed4 жыл бұрын

    The reference to bright side (the KZread channel) was incredible

  • @1800Supreme
    @1800Supreme7 жыл бұрын

    You got to love that 60° angle on the Glare BookPro. Matte ftw

  • @TreStayCool
    @TreStayCool3 жыл бұрын

    The only time Texas was consistently blue

  • @corbinglenn2567

    @corbinglenn2567

    3 жыл бұрын

    Maybe in 8 years?

  • @liamdavis2387
    @liamdavis23877 жыл бұрын

    Oh good, another video on America. Thank god, it's been at least an hour since your last ten videos about America. I was worried we'd have another video about one of the other 200+ countries in the world.

  • @shavonegranville6004

    @shavonegranville6004

    7 жыл бұрын

    lmao vox is american. what did you expect liam? what did you expect?

  • @randomguy5990

    @randomguy5990

    7 жыл бұрын

    USA USA USA USA

  • @stalpers

    @stalpers

    7 жыл бұрын

    boo hoo

  • @Ocrilat

    @Ocrilat

    7 жыл бұрын

    Awesome. Of course, you could start your own channel, and make your own videos on whatever you want...though it's probably easier to cry about America. Please America, fix my problems for me!

  • @ThZuao

    @ThZuao

    7 жыл бұрын

    What if I told you Vox is an US based news outlet with most of it's audience coming from that country? I know, right! My mind was blown too when I figured that out!!

  • @eric8820
    @eric88207 жыл бұрын

    Props to Vox for just presenting the information on this video and not any sort of Agenda.

  • @joshtiel2980
    @joshtiel29806 жыл бұрын

    It’s funny to hear this because I always thought this was just how it had been since the early years of US politics! I’m pretty sure Canadian politics had been blue conservative and red liberal at least back to the 40’s and at latest 50’s. But I would also blame the brits as well as colour TV lol. I love it guys. Keep it up!

  • @ArnoldTeras
    @ArnoldTeras4 жыл бұрын

    Honestly, they should switch colors, like the UK's parties, aligned Conservative with Blue and Liberals with Red.....

  • @NakasDougen
    @NakasDougen7 жыл бұрын

    But didn't parties use colours in campaigns before tv? Did they not have colour schemes ?

  • @garyphilipmcadam

    @garyphilipmcadam

    7 жыл бұрын

    Almost certainly! This video assumes the history of politics began in the 70s and existed purely on broadcast news. Strange.

  • @alexanderl8794

    @alexanderl8794

    7 жыл бұрын

    The world didn't have color. Everything was monochrome back then

  • @laytonwindust4351

    @laytonwindust4351

    7 жыл бұрын

    Of course they did. It's just that red and blue didn't mean Republican and Democrat. Red, white, and blue were just American colors so they were used. I looked at an old McKinnely ad and it was just colored with an american flag. The red and blue just represented that and not the individual parties.

  • @xylophone897

    @xylophone897

    7 жыл бұрын

    Alexander L is right. EVERYONE knows the world was black and white, until the 1930s, when everything turned into color.

  • @Ben-hy2hl
    @Ben-hy2hl7 жыл бұрын

    Lemme sum this up. During the Ronald Reagan election 2 of the 3 tv stations chose to show him as red because the starting letters were the same, eventually the third joined them to not cause confusion and the color schemes caught on and has been that way ever since.

  • @agent_277
    @agent_2772 жыл бұрын

    As a non-American, this is very interesting to know. Thank you! 👏

  • @deedee7733
    @deedee77333 жыл бұрын

    Wish the colours hadn't flipped, makes it difficult for a Brit to follow American politics!

  • @Anonymous-df8it

    @Anonymous-df8it

    2 жыл бұрын

    At least it's not "(adjectival form of 1/32768" wavelength of light) states" and "(adjectival form of 1/65536" wavelength of light) states" as that would be a nightmare for everyone!

  • @osberswgaming
    @osberswgaming3 жыл бұрын

    5:09 ah yes my favourite purple state, *w a s h i n g t o n*

  • @pleudumes

    @pleudumes

    3 жыл бұрын

    It was until 2004

  • @pondererofpointlessdreams5029
    @pondererofpointlessdreams50296 жыл бұрын

    Wait what...? Why did I always see maps where it was the opposite in middle school?

  • @treeckotreat8265
    @treeckotreat82655 жыл бұрын

    In Spain two of the strongest political parties are PP and PSOE, blue and red respectively and right and left respectively

  • @marcoreginelli1734
    @marcoreginelli17343 жыл бұрын

    Fun fact: The colours are actually red for Liberal and blue for Conservative in Canada

  • @DrewLong-ek1uh

    @DrewLong-ek1uh

    3 жыл бұрын

    Same for anywhere else in the world just the us has to be different

  • @Douglas_Props
    @Douglas_Props3 жыл бұрын

    Wow: that “song” is AWEFUL!!

  • @eazyethan261
    @eazyethan2612 жыл бұрын

    In England, the Conservative Party uses blue meaning traditional values since years ago, most groups that were traditional wore blue uniforms. The Labour Party uses red because it symbolizes revolution, as seen in the French Revolution and the Russian Revolution

  • @RadinTheXPguy
    @RadinTheXPguy2 жыл бұрын

    4:40 i searched that it works but you cannot go to any part of the website.

  • @py8554
    @py8554 Жыл бұрын

    Someone once told me Red means Rednecks, and rednecks vote mainly Republican….. I never checked how valid this claim is though…..

  • @adrianobulla7875
    @adrianobulla78754 жыл бұрын

    Blue is associated with conservatives in Europe, and red with the Left.

  • @blagoevski336

    @blagoevski336

    3 жыл бұрын

    Wrong

  • @jakeweberzwier8655

    @jakeweberzwier8655

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@blagoevski336 how so?

  • @kaikyc.5072
    @kaikyc.50723 жыл бұрын

    0:14 Cave Johnson spittin straight fax

  • @zerefsunlimitedshipworks
    @zerefsunlimitedshipworks6 жыл бұрын

    2:57 That DR hit me in the anime (Dangan Ronpa)