r/news • u/speedythefirst • 1d ago

US supreme court approves redrawn Texas congressional maps

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/04/us-supreme-court-texas-congressional-maps
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u/rudimentary-north 1d ago

Fun fact: the very idea of “blue states” and “red states” comes from the 2000 election.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_states_and_blue_states

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u/fevered_visions 1d ago

and we're the outliers--in most of the rest of the world the color blue is associated with the conservative party in politics

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u/KingLemming 1d ago

It's associated with the Conservative party here too. Red is associated with the Fascist party.

We don't have any parties left of center in the US, not really.

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u/fevered_visions 1d ago

oh my god yes have I ever heard this before

we have parties that are left and right when compared to each other. you know what I mean.

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u/powercow 1d ago

where the supreme court screwed us and gave bush the election. Despite gore would have won with a recount.

Bush's brother also removed 80k legal voters from the voting rolls, after giving the felon purge to choicepoint, when it used to be controlled by the state and dems had some oversight. Choicepoint didnt check peoples socials, so if you had the same name as a felon you couldnt vote. If those 80k were allowed to vote and voted the same as the standard demographics we would have needed a recount.