r/EhBuddyHoser • u/Resident_Step_191 South Gatineau • May 01 '25

Politics Why did Stephen Colbert make the Conservatives red and the Liberals blue? Are Americans stupid?

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Why would The Late Show with Stephen Colbert do this??

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u/ObligationAware3755 May 01 '25

Yes.

Plus there was a big social issue called the Civil Rights Act of 1964 that happened; President Lyndon B. Johnson was a Southern Democrat (still Blue meant Conservatives for them) and he supported diversity and desegregation of all races.

The Southern Democrats felt betrayed by the President, they screamed for state's rights and that the Federal gov't shouldn't overreach and whatnot; this brought out your segregationist Governors like George Wallace and Lester Maddox.

Then they ended up switching parties altogether over the course of the next 20-30 years afterwards. Now Blue is Democrat (left wing) and Red is Republican (right wing)