'Red state, blue state' voted top phrase

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OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) -- A panel of linguists has deemed "red state, blue state, purple state" the phrase that most colored the nation's lexicon in 2004.

Attendees at the annual convention of the Linguistic Society of America on Friday chose the word or phrase that dominated national discourse over the course of the last year.

"It was the best candidate for word of the year," said Dennis Preston, a professor of linguistics at Michigan State University. "It engaged the American public for the entire year. Nothing showed the bloodthirsty population-engaging election as this."

The phrase "red state, blue state, purple state" represents the American political map. The term defines red as favoring Republicans, blue as favoring Democrats and purple showing swing or undecided states.

that when you cross the California-Nevada border you walk from a land of liberals and socialized medicare to Pickup trucks and apple pie.

Take the color Red back.
May sound trivial, but I still want it. I am partial to the color Red. I think of May Day, red bandanas,red flags, commies and red blooded Amuricans. How can I retrieve it from those nasty nazi neocons? They deserve blue, it is for blue bloods. They just don't deserve to have their territory marked in my color, our color. I don't want to sound like a gangsta with all of that silly territorial spoor marking. But color coding is primeval and we have historical precedence. We had it first and somehow they,Republicans, stole it.

I don't see where we claim any one color as their own. If the Repubs want to identify themselves as Reds, then let's play the game as though we want to win. Better dead than Red! Damn, that would look good on a bumper sticker...

For most of the states, the difference in numbers of red and blue voters is less than one in ten. Even in the most polarized states (New York or Wyoming, for example) there are still vast multitudes who voted against their state's "color."

Frankly, it is a form of bigotry to paint everyone in a state with the same color brush. More to the point, it shows a great misunderstanding of the political diversity of the country.

which is, I suspect, why the corporate media love that particular talking point so much.

What I cannot understand for the life of me, though, is why so many Democrats are so eager to repeat it.

It was most frequently used because the CM (Corporate Media) used it as one of their diversions to fill time on election night and cable news. Why don't they just say it was the most common CM blather for the year, which is generally ignored in thought and practice by the good people of America.

I'm really sick of the self-reinforcing nature of the public dialog. What a bunch of clowns.

can't deny that. The blended alternative models that came into existance followed the red-blue territorial line and are on the fringe (not making it into our language). People like the stark right/wrong, good/evil language that flows from our President:-(

You're right. It's out there but it is so artificial that to claim it's out there in a big way is all part of the self-reinforcing, self-perpetuating perpetual motion spin machine. Ah, well. We'll see what the NewsSpeak Bureau offers up next.

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Accusing a DUer of child rape is really, really low. You got any evidence, you turn it over to the cops. Your ass is firmly connected to what's left of your brainstem.

Nice knowing you...NOT.

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He ain't nothin' but a bad memory now. Good riddance to bad rubbish.