Comments on: Four Things (Bah!) http://jim.casablog.com/2006/02/08/four-things-bah/ All a man needs out of life is a place to sit ‘n’ spit in the fire. Tue, 10 Jan 2012 21:21:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Jim http://jim.casablog.com/2006/02/08/four-things-bah/comment-page-1/#comment-177 Jim Sun, 17 Dec 2006 12:42:36 +0000 http://jim.casablog.com/2006/02/08/four-things-bah/#comment-177 Hah, I didn't even realize it was switching. I just thought it was me who was confused. I looked it up and here's the scoop. http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2004_11/005157.php So you're right. Hah, I didn’t even realize it was switching. I just thought it was me who was confused. I looked it up and here’s the scoop.

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2004_11/005157.php

So you’re right.

]]> By: Chris http://jim.casablog.com/2006/02/08/four-things-bah/comment-page-1/#comment-176 Chris Sun, 17 Dec 2006 06:34:34 +0000 http://jim.casablog.com/2006/02/08/four-things-bah/#comment-176 Blue state/red state - When exactly was this switched? Back in the years of the 20th Century's Greatest President, Ronald Wilson Reagan (pbuh), the states that went to Reagan were blue, and the states that went for Carter (and later Mondale) were red. For that matter, I believe in 1992 it was the same way. I don't recall 1996. Do they switch colors when one party controls both the legislative and executive branches? Or did they switch colors because red is closely associated with communism, and the Democratic party needed to move away from that symbolism? Just curious. Blue state/red state – When exactly was this switched? Back in the years of the 20th Century’s Greatest President, Ronald Wilson Reagan (pbuh), the states that went to Reagan were blue, and the states that went for Carter (and later Mondale) were red. For that matter, I believe in 1992 it was the same way. I don’t recall 1996.

Do they switch colors when one party controls both the legislative and executive branches?

Or did they switch colors because red is closely associated with communism, and the Democratic party needed to move away from that symbolism?

Just curious.

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