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[-] leftytighty@slrpnk.net 5 points 1 month ago

American colors are backwards for some reason. In countries around the world (that I'm familiar with, at least) blue is the conservative color and red is the liberal/left color. Orange tends to be social democrat, I think, but that might be my Canada bias.

This is consistent across the Commonwealth at the very least, but I think I've noticed the pattern met in other European countries as well.

[-] JokeDeity@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago

TIL honestly, I never thought about it much, but it's interesting we're reverse of the norm.

[-] leftytighty@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I never gave it much thought either but now I'm inspired to look it up, maybe they began that way but the policies shifted and the colors didn't. My American history is not great but I think that might line up with the Republicans at least

EDIT: Wow more recent and arbitrary than I thought https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_states_and_blue_states

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