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The bottom blue bar represents the South Branch of the river and the "Great Canal", over the Chicago Portage. [2] The light blue of the flag's two bars is variously called sky blue [3] or pale blue; [4] in a 1917 article of a speech by designer Wallace Rice, it was called "the color of water". [5] [6]
Thus, red and blue became fixed in the media and in many people's minds, despite the fact that the Democratic and Republican parties had not officially chosen colors. [21] Some Republicans argue the GOP should retain its historic association with blue, since most center-right parties worldwide are associated with blue.
The flag's designer, Monica Helms, [32] describes the traditional associations of pink and blue as the reasons for the flag's colors. The blue stripes represent boys and men, the pink stripes represent girls and women, and the white stripe represents intersex, nonbinary, and gender-nonconforming people, and those still in transition. [33] [34]
Color symbolism in art, literature, and anthropology is the use of color as a symbol in various cultures and in storytelling. There is great diversity in the use of colors and their associations between cultures [ 1 ] and even within the same culture in different time periods. [ 2 ]
Blue Island Avenue is a street in the city of Chicago, Illinois that once led to a ridge of land that early pioneers gave the name "Blue Island" because at a distance it looked like an island in the prairie. The blue color was attributed to atmospheric scattering or to blue flowers growing on the ridge. [1]
It was dainty enough for a small baby. The color of the case was blue. That is because, thought Nancy, the baby is a boy. Thank goodness, it is now considered correct to use blue for boys and pink for girls. The other color scheme always seemed wrong. Pink is a little girl's color, always. And anyway, B stands for blue and for boy. Had the baby ...
As the color that most symbolized harmony, blue was chosen as the color of the flags of the United Nations and the European Union.{2} [2] [3] [page needed] On 9 December 1955, the Committee of Ministers adopted the Emblem of the Council of Europe selecting the color heraldic azure to represent the blue sky of the Western world. [4]
In Austria, blue is heavily associated with the right-wing populist Freedom Party and with pan-Germanism. It is the Freedom Party's official colour, and its members are generally referred to as "blues" in the media and colloquial speech. [20] The blue cornflower was a national symbol of Germany in the 19th century, often associated with Prussia.