>>BTW its amusing how the colour connotations are different over here. Our cities are largely red (labour) and the countryside is blue (Tories).
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>I don't understand how they came up with the colors.... LOL... must be the liberal press trying to infer that conservatives are communist (red)....

AIUI, prior to the 2000 election, they alternated which color they used for each party. By the time that election had settled down, the terms "blue state" and "red state" had entered the vernacular.

Oh, and that would be "imply," not "infer." The speaker/writer implies; the listener/reader infers.

Tamar