More than Red and Blue

As the votes are tallied on election night and maps show which presidential candidate has a lead in each state, viewers likely won't need an ...

For the past two years, several think tanks on opposite sides of the political divide have waged war over whether “red” or “blue” America ...

Well, we at USA TODAY may have had something to do with it. Prior to 2000, red and blue did not always respectively denote Republicans and ...

Here's a look at how the tradition of calling states that usually favor Republicans “red” and Democrats “blue” came about.

This chart shows the movement between blue and red* U.S. states in 2005 and 2022 (in million residents).

Most of the states we live in appear to be solidly Republican or Democrat. These maps offer a chance to look beneath the surface at the ...

The counting of ballots can take longer in some places than in others. This can result in a phenomenon known as the “blue shift,” where ...

From league of graphs, infographics. It doesn't matter what patch we are in blue side always win a bit more than red side.

But Texas hasn't budged. In 2020, Joe Biden lost the state by 5 percentage points. It was the best showing by a Democratic presidential ...

Political party-affiliation has shaped response efforts to the COVID-19 pandemic. •. Red states had higher COVID-19 infection rates and deaths ...

The 2000 presidential election cemented the color-coded nature of political parties. Prior to that race, the colors were often reversed on ...

In the United States the color red has come to represent the Republican party, and blue the Democratic party, in maps of voting patterns.

Last fall, Joe Biden became the first Democratic presidential candidate to win Arizona since 1996 and the first to carry Georgia since 1992.

Republican and Democratic states aren't exactly sure what they are for, but they know what they're against.

The Democrats are blue and the Republicans are ... yellow? Why aren't they red? The answer is: Because the assignation of red-as-Republican, ...

The political parties have now embraced their assigned colors, with Democrats urging citizens to "Vote Blue!" and supporters of Donald Trump ...

Because land doesn't vote. Voters do. Simple. Color voting maps are highly deceptive. If a rural county with 20k voters is majority ...

By now, most of us have noticed a paradigm shift that has made traditional political labels obsolete. Red versus Blue (Republican ...

Red and blue are closely associated with the top two parties in the United States, but it's only been that way for a little more than a decade.

Blue of course symbolizes the Democratic party, while red represents the GOP. This might seem like a long-standing tradition, but it isn't.