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LonelyJar
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27 Dec 2015, 11:41 pm

Are politically-neutral US states white, purple or something else?



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28 Dec 2015, 12:19 am

White.

The color scheme comes from TV newscasts of Election night which go by the flag. On those TV newscasts red is one party (only in the Nineties did it become standard for red=GOP), and blue the other party (ditto the blue=democrat), and the undecided states have always been white (the third color on the flag).

Folks sometimes conjecture that "blue mixed with red yields purple, so an undecided state must be purple" but if you're going by Election Might news (which in turn go by the colors of the flag) then its white.



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28 Dec 2015, 12:34 am

I usually see purple, or a red/blue diagonal striped pattern when I see political maps.


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28 Dec 2015, 9:03 am

Dox47 wrote:
I usually see purple, or a red/blue diagonal striped pattern when I see political maps.


Yeah and I usually hear commentators refer to them as purple as well.