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Why are the American right red and left blue, the opposite to most other places?
They actually swapped which color was representing which party in election years on TV until the 2000 election. The election coverage went on until the almost the end of that year due to contested Presidential Election that went to the Supreme Court but the concept of "red states" and "blue states" was burned into the collective memory so hard they just stayed like that afterwards.
During the 2000 election all the major news networks happened to use red for states that went Republican and blue for states that went Democratic, and it kind of stuck since.