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I think that 'red' and 'blue' are just plain confusing because the US has relatively recently taken its own bindings of these labels to political positions that are completely arse-backwards to the long term historical uses of these colours in the entire rest of the world.

I think it's best to use more descriptive terms that everyone can actually agree on

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Blue/Red in the US used to be (deliberately) switched on TV broadcasts in every election until the 2000 Bush election where the continual coverage of how close it was locked the colors in for all time.

This wikipedia entry takes 6 paragraphs to explain the nuances involved and they are far more complicated than you state (not that I think you intended that way):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_states_and_blue_states#Con...

Which basically gets back to my original point in an international forum like this (or the one described by the above article) these colours don't really mean anything you can talk about and they're best avoided unless your goal actually is to sow confusion

Yeah interesting. I wasn’t aware of all the subtleties at all.

Thanks for the link.

Well in the US the colours used to be reversed as well, but then they switched in the beginning of the 20th century.

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