Incidentally how did the
>American right wing GOP party come to adopt "Red" as their colour?
They didn't adopt it, they were assigned it. For the Presidental elections, the television networks used the device of a map where each state's color signified who had "won" the electoral college votes for that state. Red, white and blue being the obvious colors, and the mnemonic "Red=Republican" set the choice.
Originally a big plexiglass stage set with colored light bulbs, but more recently video walls and computer graphics. I don't remember who (ABC/NBC/CBS) did it first, but the others copied it.
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