purple state
English
Etymology
purple + state From purple being a blend of blue and red colors, where the color representing the Democratic Party of the United States is blue and that representing the Republican Party of the United States is red. From being a state (“subnational division, province”) in flux between Republicans and Democrats
Noun
purple state (plural purple states)
- (US, politics, idiomatic) A swing state. (In the modern United States) a state that may support the Democratic or Republican Party (purple states, states that vote for Democratic or Republican Party in general, being red states in some given elections and blue states in other given elections).
See also
- blue state
- green state
- red state
- Appendix:American Dialect Society words of the year
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