One could make a really good case right about now that:

a) Vladimir Putin is doing his best to put the band back together, and

b) Republicans are acting as extremely willing Russian assets, so therefore

c) Associating them with the red of Soviet Communism is pretty accurate.

On Thu, May 29, 2025 at 7:51 AM Chet Ramey via COFF <coff@tuhs.org> wrote:

On 5/29/25 10:23 AM, Paul Winalski wrote:

> Somehow this color scheme got switched around in the current liberal vs.
> conservative ideological divide. Red is now the color of the right wing
> and Blue is the color of the left wing. I don't know why that change happened.

Gradual media conversion on those colors, finally cementing after CNN
ran a map after the 2000 election that had Republican states in red.