"Better dead than red"

[eleny]

It's as timely as ever.

[calico1]

1. You know, until you posted it

I had not remembered that. You are so right. Very appropriate isn't it?

[PretzelWarrior]

2. there's probably some whack job in Montana really Pissed

about them being referred to as RED states. Too funny.

[JNelson6563]

3. Brilliant!

I love it! Think we need to do sometihng with this!

Julie

[eleny]

6. I want to make some bumper stickers for my car with it

But my car is red! Now what do I do? Button for my coat - that would do it.

[Deja Q]

4. And when the terror attacks start to roll up, let's find out which

areas hit were Blue.

[lovedems]

5. That would make a good button for your backpack!

Where is mo? She sent me some GREAT pinko buttons!

[eleny]

10. Ooooh - good idea!

I can print it out and sew it onto a canvas bag. I bet those are cheap to buy in quantity. When they get dirty, toss and start fresh.

[Geek_Girl]

7. But what if you live in a red state

But aren't a fundie are you still consider a red?

[PretzelWarrior]

9. nope. have sign: "an oasis of blue in a sea of red"

or something like that.

[yardwork]

11. Absolutely not. Red is a state of mind, not a state.

[eleny]

12. I am in a red state but I voted blue

[Search Party]

8. How about this: (R) The Red Party n/t

[LadyinRed]

13. ET TU......... DU

"BETTER DEAD THAN RED" ?
The slogan was used in the United States in the 1950s by anti-Communists to express their opposition to a Communist takeover in the USA, or indeed to any "POTENT LEFTIST INFLUENCE" at all.

See: McCarthyism

The act of making insufficiently supported accusations or engaging in unfair investigatory methods against a person as a purported attempt to unfairly silence or discredit them is often referred to as McCarthyism.

The Arthur Miller play "The Crucible", written during the McCarthy era, used the Salem witch trials as a metaphor for the McCarthyism of the 1950s, suggesting that the PROCESS OF McCARTHYISM-STYLE PERSECUTION CAN OCCUR AT ANY TIME AND ANY PLACE.

[eleny]

14. And turn around is fair play

Btw, thanks for posting the history of it. Being a baby boomer, I take it for granted that most people know about it.

[ET Awful]

15. That's kind of the point Bama . . . the people most likely to have used

the slogan THEN, are now coveting the title of "red" in an entirely new way. It's more a way of throwing their own bigotry and idiocy in their faces.

I kind of like it to be honest.