Why red means Republican and blue means Democrat 

I was just about to comment the same thing.

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

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.

Your default profile picture color is that color.

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.

just like meters vs yards. we are the exception!

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.

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.

RU-vidr What?

'Murica!!!

No it's Patrick

Definitely Laurel

Jon Doe omgggggg

Nono, it’s turquoise and grey!

Blue and black

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

anime must look really shitty to you

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

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.

Blue states and green states

if being orange is a crime...

no its red and gray, since hillary is dying

you're right. orange and grey

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

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

I'm paranoid that I'm colorblind now

Alabama is like that dress.

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.

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

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

Not every country need to be the same

It's just colours lad

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

Here in Colombia conservative is blue and liberal is red

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

Lmao and America is quickly falling behind

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.

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

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

In America orange means criminal

We think we are special

"Other" country? What?

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

... 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.

***** 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.

and i thought i was color blind there for a second

It looks like yellow to me

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

***** 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.

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!

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

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.

Kinda sad actually

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

Purple looks badass

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

Gurnawaz Gill this is true (fellow Canadian)

the ndp is far from far left

@@owl2944 Isn't ndp more yellowish?

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

Although Trump wore blue tie and Clinton had red dress.

@@goitsimodimomadue8053 Where'd u get that from?

Always dark suits

It's actually good barbecue

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Why?

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

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.

1980rlquinn dint think of that scenario. Interesting take.

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

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

@@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

@@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

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

Democrips vs Rebloodicans

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

+Magnus McCloud its was a joke lol

Magnus McCloud Lol South Park

Grove Street Vs ballas

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

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.

Yep Canada also has Liberal red and Torie Blue.

Swedish Social Democrats, aka Swedish Suicidal Democrats.

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.

They used to be

@@fos1451 party switch

That was the case until 1920.

They were until the 20’s - 30’s

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.

yes

Yep

Also in nearly all the rest of the world

and blue is conservative

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.)

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.

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.

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

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

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

nice pun

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

***** 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.

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

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

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

Thats the liberals for yah

@@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?

@@rseestella2296 fight fire with fire i guess

Or start them lol. 2020 for example.

@@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.

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.

@@rhodawatkins4516 and then there's Commifornia😕

@@jakeweberzwier8655 California is neoliberal

@@thematthew761 there's no difference 😎

@@jakeweberzwier8655 Communism=Neoliberal? What?

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

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

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

TRIGGERED!!

IMMA FIRIN MAH LAZAR!! BLAAAAAAAAAHHH!!!!

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

It's cyan for me.

I SAW GREEN

It was white and gold for me

Not deep blue but still blue

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!

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

USA USA USA USA

boo hoo

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!

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!!

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

Wrong

@@blagoevski336 how so?

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

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

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.

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

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

It was until 2004

both

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

Different political systems. In Germany, your parties form coalitions when needed. In America, the coalitions are semi-permanent fixtures from year to year.

In Canada, we have blue (Conservative), red (Liberal), orange (NDP), light blue (Bloc Québécois), and green (Green)

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Its a inevitable result of FPTP (First Past The Post) or winner-take-all voting. It inevitably leads to two-party systems as people realize that by voting for those that support them the most, ends up giving the advantage to those that support them the least. This election cycle might be the first to have a different result but only because the candidates on both sides of the major parties are so historically disliked, that half of their supporters are only voting for them because they hate the OTHER side more. Many have argued the merits of having a two-party system and for a time, it was a convenient way to group people who barely agreed with each other in order to work on issues together. Now though, the reality that your fellow rights and lefts don't actually hold the same views as you has sent a shock wave through the political climate and threatens to break the powerful political giants that people thought were sacrosanct. Only time will tell if its a good thing or a bad thing.

Exactly, and it could happen again at anytime.

That’s because it is. Lol

Maybe in 8 years?

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!

CrossfacePanda I thought that was green too

ye, that's green, I think it was supposed to be blue and was just the tv quality

Color technology was very poor back then, mixed with tape degradation and NTSC screens also not doing well with color causes this.

-Blue-Green specifically- yeah toltally blue XDDD

Blue is more of a calming color while red isn't. So I guess they decided to give democrats that color instead of Republicans.

tree bear Blue is a color of nothing changing, like conservatives. Keep things the way they are. Red is seen as a radical color, change. Makes more sense for that to be for the liberal party