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History of blue and red in electoral maps.
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RE: History of blue and red in electoral maps.
(November 5, 2016 at 7:01 am)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote:
(November 4, 2016 at 9:00 pm)Brian37 Wrote: I wonder if the GOP and corporate world pushed for a flip in colors considering the time of the late 70s and early 80s was the height of the  Cold War "Red Scare".

You must have missed the HUAC hearings in the '50s.  Undecided

I wasn't alive then. I was born in 66. But I do know enough of history now to know that our right wing bullied religion onto money and into the pledge, and back then racism was horrible not that it isn't today too. And anyone daring to question authority to Joseph McCarthy got accused, many times falsely of being in bed with the enemy.
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History of blue and red in electoral maps. - by Brian37 - November 4, 2016 at 7:28 am
RE: History of blue and red in electoral maps. - by Brian37 - November 4, 2016 at 9:00 pm
RE: History of blue and red in electoral maps. - by Brian37 - November 5, 2016 at 9:07 am
RE: History of blue and red in electoral maps. - by Brian37 - November 5, 2016 at 10:31 am
RE: History of blue and red in electoral maps. - by Brian37 - November 5, 2016 at 1:34 pm
RE: History of blue and red in electoral maps. - by brewer - November 5, 2016 at 10:00 am

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