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Why are Republicans red and Democrats blue?

The party colors are a surprisingly recent tradition.

Source Guardian US AI Summary Updated 1h 48m ago

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The party colors are a surprisingly recent tradition. But do they really represent the diversity of Americans’ beliefs? Color has long played a role in US politics. In 1867, US suffragists Susan B Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton adopted the yellow color of the sunflower – Kansas’s state flower – during their campaign for women’s voting rights in the stat…

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