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ORIGINAL: KenDckey

Hey DYB   who started the Red/Blue thing?   Seems like someone got their colors all messed up.   Blue means freindly forces and Red means the Enemy of the United States (all of it)   So when describing whatever the red thing is supposed to mean, they are saying that everyone (100% of those living in the states that are red) are enemies of the United States and therefore we should expand the military and take the states over?   A really dumb idea.  

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ORIGINAL: rulemylife

I would like to take this opportunity to announce that I am starting a new charity, Shirts for CollarMe Members.

You can c-mail on the other side but basically the goal is to provide for the shirtless.

You can donate any new or used shirt you have to help out the shirtless.

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The terms "red states" and "blue states" came into use in 2000 to refer to those states of the United States whose residents predominantly vote for the Republican Party or Democratic Party presidential candidates, respectively. A blue state tends to vote for the Democratic Party, and a red state tends to vote for the Republican Party, although the colors were often reversed or different colors used before the 2000 election. According to AlterNet and The Washington Post, the terms were coined by journalist Tim Russert, during his televised coverage of the 2000 presidential election.[1] That was not the first election during which the news media used colored maps to graphically depict voter preferences in the various states, but it was the first time a standard color scheme took hold. Since 2000, usage of the term has been expanded to differentiate between states being perceived as liberal and those perceived as conservative.