It wasn’t Republicans. In the presidential elections of 1976 and 1980 blue represented Republicans Gerald Ford and Ronald Reagan. Blue for Republicans and red for Democrats was a long ongoing tradition dating back to the Civil War.
In 2000 the New York Times and USA Today changed the colors and designated red for Republicans and blue for democrats on the Electoral College maps. Network television media picked up on this distinction in the 2000 presidential election electoral maps and the color distinctions have stuck ever since.
Originally, the Republican Party comprised the northern states prior, during, and long after the Civil War’s color was blue, more accurately, navy. Republicans fighting for the Union wore navy and blue uniforms.
All of the early Republican Presidents wore the Union Navy Uniforms. Grant, Hayes, Garfield, Harrison and McKinley.
The navy colors link back to the Father of our Country and his Party, the Federalist, who were the philosophical predecessors of the Republican Party.
The Democrats, who comprised the confederacy adopted the predominately red confederate flag.
The color red has also been historically associated with leftist ideologies and Marxism throughout the world. Red is a much more appropriate color for the 21st century Democratic Party in the United States.
Perhaps red is appropriate for a Party embracing populism, personality, autocracy, grievance, division, and anger replacing the Republican Party’s heritage of impartiality, self-governance, charity, equality, union, and morality.
Are Republicans today that far detached from the history, heritage, principles, and colors of their Party?
Constitutional Republicans look to restore the characteristics of the Party best personified by its greatest champion, Abraham Lincoln, and the colors worn by those Republicans he lead as Commander & Chief, ending slavery, preserving the union and fulfilling the promise of liberty to all. May we take back our blue & navy and restore our colors and our principles in best representing ALL citizens of the United States.
