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Map based on last Senate election in each state as of 2024. Starting with the 2000 United States presidential election, the terms "red state" and "blue state" have referred to US states whose voters vote predominantly for one party—the Republican Party in red states and the Democratic Party in blue states—in presidential and other statewide elections.
The idea of “red states” and “blue states” may feel deeply embedded in the symbolism of US politics, but before 2000 the colors were often the other way around.
The data found that four Democratic states and 12 Republican states could have more lopsided results. Seven blue states and three red states could become more competitive.
Americans are segregating by their politics at a rapid clip, helping fuel the greatest divide between the states in modern history. Conservatives go to red states, Democrats to blue as the country ...
Cook PVIs are calculated by comparing a state's average Democratic Party or Republican Party share of the two-party presidential vote in the past two presidential elections to the nation's average share of the same. PVIs for the states over time can be used to show the trends of U.S. states towards, or away from, one party or the other. [4]
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 ...
Prior to 2000, red and blue did not always respectively denote Republicans and Democrats. Here's why Republicans are 'red' and Democrats are 'blue': USA TODAY may have contributed to it Skip to ...
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 ...