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In Australia, the center-right Liberal Party uses the color blue, while the center-left Labor Party uses the color red. The formal alliance between the two main center-right political parties in Australia, the Liberal Party and National Party), known as the Coalition, also uses blue (although the National Party itself uses dark green). While ...
A key exception to the convention of red to mean the left-wing of politics is the United States. Since about the year 2000, the mass media have associated red with the Republican Party, even though the Republican Party is a conservative party (see red states and blue states). [30]
The Republican Party's right-wing populist movements emerged in concurrence with a global increase in populist movements in the 2010s and 2020s, [228] [231] coupled with entrenchment and increased partisanship within the party since 2010. [288] This included the rise of the Tea Party movement, which has also been described as far-right. [289]
Red, white and blue cockade – Democratic-Republican Party; Star – Democratic Party (used on ballots in New York State) Statue of Liberty – Libertarian Party. Also a national symbol; Sunflower – Green Party; also, Republican presidential candidate Alfred Landon of Kansas in 1936
Although conservative blue-collar workers migrated to the Republican Party, an upper business class, historically part of the Republican Party since the Gilded Age, began moving left. According to Ross Douthat , "Today’s G.O.P. is most clearly now the party of local capitalism—the small-business gentry, the family firms", while "much of ...
The "blue wall" is a term coined in 2009 in the political culture of the United States to refer to the dozen-or-so states (along with Washington, D.C.) that reliably "voted blue" i.e. for the Democratic Party in the six consecutive presidential elections from 1992 to 2012. This trend suggested a fundamental dominance in presidential politics ...
In American politics, a blue shift, also called a red mirage, [1] [2] is an observed phenomenon under which counts of in-person votes are more likely than overall vote counts to be for the Republican Party (whose party color is red), while provisional votes or absentee ballots, which are often counted later, are more likely than overall vote counts to be for the Democratic Party (whose color ...
Wave elections in the United States are elections in which a political party makes major gains. Based on the "red states and blue states" color coding convention in use since 2000, wave elections have often been described as either "blue waves" or "red waves" depending on which party makes significant gains, referring to a major increase in seats held by either the Democratic Party (associated ...