red-state blue-state divide

Examples of red-state blue-state divide in the following topics:

• Socioeconomic and Racial Demographics

  • This red-state blue-state divide can be more accurately explained by looking at urban and rural voting.
  • For example, in the 2008 elections, even in "solidly blue" states, the majority of voters in most rural counties voted for Republican John McCain, with some exceptions.
  • In "solidly red" states, a majority of voters in most urban counties voted for Democrat Barack Obama.
  • An even more detailed precinct-by-precinct breakdown demonstrates that in many cases, large cities voted for Obama, but their suburbs were divided.
  • This map of the different party strength in the 2004 Presidential Election (red states voted Republican and blue states voted Democrat) demonstrates the relationship between political socialization and geography.

• Red States vs. Blue States

  • The terms "red state" (Republican-voting) and "blue state" (Democratic-voting) were standardized during the 2000 US presidential election.
  • Interestingly, though, there was no coordinated media effort to designate Democratic states blue and Republican states red on the 2000 election night and neither party's national committee has officially accepted the red and blue color designations.
  • Despite the nearly nationwide acceptance of Republican red states and Democratic blue states, the paradigm has come under criticism.
  • The designation of states as either being red or blue also ignores those states that are closely divided between Democratic and Republican candidates.
  • Another criticism of the red state-blue state paradigm is that it has not been entirely predictive of how states will vote.

• Voter Turnout

  • Despite significant study of the issue, scholars are divided on reasons for the decline.
  • For example, the Holy See instructed Italian Catholics to boycott national elections for several decades after the creation of the State of Italy.
  • Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) won the popular vote in 28 states and the District of Columbia (denoted in blue) to capture 365 electoral votes.
  • Senator John McCain (R-AZ) won the popular vote in 22 states (denoted in red) to capture 173 electoral votes.
  • Graph of Voter turnout in the United States presidential elections from 1824 to 2008.

• Arbitration

  • Arbitration has been used for centuries for the resolution of disputes between states and state-like entities.
  • The 1899 and 1907 Hague Conferences addressed arbitration as a mechanism for resolving state-to-state disputes, leading to the adoption of the Hague Conventions for the Pacific Settlement of International Disputes.
  • In recent years, international arbitration has been used to resolve a number of disputes between states or state-like entities, thus making arbitration an important tool in modern foreign policy.
  • Blue is the border as was claimed by the United States, red is the border as was claimed by Canada.
  • These states are parties to the Permanent Court of Arbitration (the green states signed on to the 1907 agreement and the blue ones to the 1899 agreement).

• The Republican Party

  • The Republican Party is one of the two major political parties in the United States, along with the Democratic Party.
  • By 1858, the Republicans dominated nearly all Northern states.
  • After the 2000 election, the color red became associated with the GOP when on election night, for the first time, all of the major broadcast networks used the same color scheme for the electoral map: red for states won by Republican George W.
  • Bush and blue for Democrat Al Gore.
  • During Bush's State of the Union speech of January 2002, he named Iraq, Iran, and North Korea as states that "constitute an axis of evil" and "pose a grave and growing danger".

• The Two-Party System

  • These two parties have won every United States presidential election since 1852 and have controlled the United States Congress to some extent since at least 1856.
  • The winner–takes–all principle applies in presidential elections, thus if a presidential candidate gets the most votes in any particular state, all of the electoral votes from that state are awarded to the candidate.
  • Compared to the United States' two-party system, the most common form of democracy is the British multi-party model.
  • Blue: Democrat Red: Republican.
  • Discuss the historical origins of the two-party system in the United States and its advantages and disadvantages

• Service to Constituents

  • Senators often choose a different specialty from that of the other senator from their state to prevent overlap.
  • All major Republican geographic constituencies are visible: red dominates the map, showing Republican strength in the rural areas, while the denser areas (i.e., cities) are blue.

• Forms of Government

  • Government is the means by which state policy is enforced, as well as the mechanism for determining the policy of the state.
  • Government is the means by which state policy is enforced, as well as the mechanism for determining the policy of the state.
  • States are served by a continuous succession of different governments.
  • Blue represents full presidential republics, while green and yellow are presidential republics with less powerful presidents.
  • Red and pink are parliamentary constitutional monarchies, and purple represents absolute monarchies.

• The Democratic Party

  • The Democratic Party is one of two major contemporary political parties in the United States along with the Republican Party.
  • The party has the lengthiest record of continuous operation in the United States and is one of the oldest political parties in the world.
  • The party favored states' rights and strict adherence to the Constitution; it opposed a national bank and wealthy, moneyed interests.
  • As the American Civil War broke out, Northern Democrats were divided into War Democrats and Peace Democrats.
  • Since election night in 2000, the color blue has become the identified color of the Democratic Party, all major broadcast television networks used blue for Democrat Al Gore.