Don't call me Comrade.

I've been thinking abou this whole Red State/Blue State (oe even Red County/Blue County) thing for a while and have this to say about it: The colors are wrong. From the the Star on Brezhnev's Hat to the cover of Time Magazine, the tints and tones of the commies are red. Yet the ideological color scheme is reveresed for the Red Sate/Blue State map. Is this some kind of plot to confuse school children? I mean, when I hear "Red State" I think "North Korea", not "Texas". But I bet there are a bunch of kids in 7th grade civics classes being taught that Oklahoma and Utah are Red States. It really frys me.