Colors of the Liberal/Left

[TomClash]

I need to use a color in a particular aspect of my work and I want to use a color that subtly signifies liberal/left politics.

Red used to be that color but I was wondering if there is another color that may be more appropriate in 2005 and beyond. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

[Blue-Jay]

1. huh?

[Deep13]

2. blue state of mind

[ihaveaquestion]

3. Red stands for liberal/left politics????

Blue is the color of the left - or so I thought.

If you want to be subtle - use pale blue.

[TomClash]

4. Before Red State/Blue State Left was red

That's where they got the term "pinko" from.

But you're right. Blue might be best now.

[ashling]

5. the blue/red thing is actually a media thing

I remember in the 60s when the electoral maps used by the networks were the other way around.

Pinko comes not from this red/blue descriptor, but from Reds as in Commies.

[TomClash]

6. That's right

The media reversed it.

Red goes back to the Paris Commune but before that it was associated with the military (Black was the Church), hence Stendhal's novel "The Red and The Black."

[no name no slogan]

9. black and red together have also been used by anarchists

and the allies of the anarchists, most notably in Spain during the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939):


Here's the flag of the Confederación Nacional de Trabajadores / Federación Anarquista Ibérica (CNT/FAI), the National Workers' Confederation/Spanish Anarchist Federation, the union/party of the Spanish Anarchists.

I've even been to recent anti-war rallies where various Anarchist/Libertarian Socialist groups have carried similar flags, so it's still in use (at least in Minneapolis).

Geez, I'm a history nerd. Why do I know all this crap? :dunce:

[TomClash]

11. Crap?? For the same reason I know it - you want to!

Take a look at my sig

So I dare you to bring one of those flags into Byerly's. :-)

[no name no slogan]

12. Byerly's!!!!

:rofl:

Damn, that WOULD be a hoot! Right into the big one in Edina (where I once got a bad lobster which gave me food poisoning, btw...). Shouting "No Pasaran" at the top of my lungs!!! :woohoo:

[TomClash]

7. THANKS TO EVERYONE

This was helpful to me.

[ghostsofgiants]

8. Up here in Canada the Liberal Party (which is actually a centrist party)..

is red and the Conservative Party is blue. The NDP (the leftist party here) is orange.

Red also invokes communism/socialism for a lot of people, which is where I think the statement that leftist politics would be represented by red comes from.

[tjwmason]

14. Not for the whole of the rest of the world

My understanding (which is second-hand being both too young and non-American to get it first-hand) is that the colours were frequently changed around in American news reporting. Remember that until fairly recently American politics did not have the same ideological divide of most of the West.

Right up to "the Red-flag".

[WCGreen]

10. Periwinkle..

I have absolutely no idea what the color looks like...

I just love the sound it makes coming off my tongue,,,

[Democracy White]

13. It's a light purplish/bluish color

crimson red.

Dee

[WCGreen]

15. Now my life is complete......