<div dir="ltr"><div>One could make a really good case right about now that:</div><div><br></div><div>a) Vladimir Putin is doing his best to put the band back together, and</div><div>b) Republicans are acting as extremely willing Russian assets, so therefore</div><div>c) Associating them with the red of Soviet Communism is pretty accurate.</div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, May 29, 2025 at 7:51 AM Chet Ramey via COFF <<a href="mailto:coff@tuhs.org">coff@tuhs.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">On 5/29/25 10:23 AM, Paul Winalski wrote:<br>
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> Somehow this color scheme got switched around in the current liberal vs. <br>
> conservative ideological divide. Red is now the color of the right wing <br>
> and Blue is the color of the left wing. I don't know why that change happened.<br>
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Gradual media conversion on those colors, finally cementing after CNN<br>
ran a map after the 2000 election that had Republican states in red.<br><br>
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