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Fesshole 🧻 (fesshole@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 16-Jun-2026 23:20:25 JST Fesshole 🧻

I'm a high level European political commentator for a major newspaper - and I still can't remember the difference between US Republicans and Democrats without mumbling Brian's Republican Town song from Family Guy

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  Justin Macleod (justinmac84@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Jun-2026 04:10:45 JST Justin Macleod
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  @fesshole Is there much of a difference these days?
  
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  ipt (ipt@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 18-Jun-2026 08:39:32 JST ipt
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  @fesshole https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_states_and_blue_states#History_of_the_color_schematics
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    Red states and blue states
    
    Starting with the 2000 United States presidential election, the term red state has been used to refer to states who predominantly vote for the Republican Party, and the term blue state has been used to refer to states who predominantly vote for the Democratic Party. By contrast, states where the predominant vote fluctuates between Democratic and Republican candidates are known as swing states or purple states. Examining patterns within states reveals that the reversal of the two parties' geographic bases has happened at the state level, but it is more complicated locally, with urban–rural divides associated with many of the largest changes. All states contain both Democratic voters and Republican voters (i.e., they are "purple") and only appear blue or red on the electoral map because of the winner-take-all system used by most states in the Electoral College. However, the perception of some states as "blue" and some as "red", based on plurality or majority support for either party, was reinforced by a degree of partisan stability from election to election—from the 2016 presidential election to the 2020 presidential...

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