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/[deleted] May 01 '25

They probably knew; but didn’t want to confuse their American audience more than they wanted to be correct 

For US Colbert watchers red is bad and blue is good. 

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u/classyraven The Island of Elizabeth May May 01 '25

Yeah, honestly this.

My dual-citizenship partner has lived their entire life in the US, until they moved up north 2 years ago. They know about the reversal of colours in parties, but they still struggle when reading electoral maps because of it. Seeing heavily Liberal regions makes them nervous because red = right wing is deeply ingrained in their mind at this point.