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In the [[United States]], a '''red state''' is a state where a simple majority has voted for the [[Republican Party|Republican]] candidate in a presidential [[election]]. The term originates from the news networks, which during the [[2000 presidential election]] decided to agree on one color to represent the Republicans and one for the [[Democrat]]s in the states that the respective parties won in.
The choice of red to represent the United States' major conservative-leaning party is a departure from the practice used in other countries (such as Canada and the United Kingdom), where red is the color of liberal-leaning parties (while blue is the color of conservative-leaning ones).
In the [[Cold War]] era, Republican states were [[blue state]]s and Democrat states were Red states. In the post-Cold War era, the [[liberal media]] made the switch because of the [[Democrat Party]]'s long association with [[Communist]] [[revolution]]ary Reds, and communism at that time was a highly discredited [[genocidal]] ideology, and Blue is regarded as the color of tranquility.
==Definition==
Voters in red states are considered generally more [[conservative]] as a whole than voters in other states. People in red states generally consider themselves committed to conservative [[Christian]] [[morality]], [[abortion|pro-life]], [[family values]], economic self-sufficiency, and a desire to reduce the [[tax]] burden, be sufficiently armed for [[self-defense]], and reduce the degree of [[government]] intervention in their lives. This is opposed to, say, the liberal [[San Francisco values]] of the blue states. Red states are generally in the southern, western (except the Pacific coast), and Midwestern [[United States]]. These states are also collectively known as the [[real America]].
== Composition ==
These states tend to favor Republicans in both presidential and statewide/local elections:
*[[Idaho]]
*[[Utah]]
*[[Arizona]]
*[[Wyoming]]
*[[North Dakota]]
*[[South Dakota]]
*[[Nebraska]]
*[[Kansas]]
*[[Oklahoma]]
*[[Texas]]
*[[Louisiana]]
*[[Mississippi]]
*[[Alabama]]
*[[Georgia]]
*[[South Carolina]]
*[[Tennessee]]
*[[Indiana]]
*[[Florida]] (in more recent years beginning in 2016)
These states tend to favor Republicans in Presidential elections but will frequently favor Democrats in statewide/local elections:
*[[Montana]]
*[[North Carolina]]
*[[Arkansas]]
*[[Kentucky]]
*[[Missouri]]
*[[Iowa]]
*[[Ohio]]
These states tend to vote Republican in statewide/local elections but will frequently favor Democrats in Presidential elections:
*[[Wisconsin]]
*[[Nevada]]
These states historically tended to be strong Republican supporters in either presidential or statewide/local elections, but changed their political orientation in favor of the Democrats over the past years or decades:
*[[California]]
*[[Colorado]]
*[[New York]]
*[[Virginia]]
==See also==
* [[Blue state]]s or [[Essay:Free States Movement#Naughty State List|Unfree states]] of [[Big Government]]-[[Welfare state]]-[[Nanny state]]-[[Statist]]-[[Police state]]
* [[Purple state]]s - swing states that can vote either [[Republican]] or [[Democrat]]
* [[Essay:Free States Movement|Free States Movement]]
* [[Strategic relocation]]: [[Vote with your feet]]
* [[Free State Wyoming]] - [[Free State Project]]
==References==
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[[Category:United States Political Terms]]
[[Category:Conservatism]]
[[Category:Republicans]]
[[Category:Republican Party]]
[[Category:Pro Second Amendment]]
[[Category:Politics]]
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[[Category:Regions of the United States]]
[[Category:United States Geography]]
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