Actually the colors are not backward. The United States and Switzerland are the only states in which the left wing is represented by the color blue and the right wing is represented by the color red. In the global political spectrum, left wing is red whilst right wing is blue, in correlation with the ROYGBIV order of the colors in the visible light spectrum.
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Was passing by on a google image search for left and right wing politics and I bumped into this. This was an excellent explanation!
It is good, but the colours are backward. Demmys are blue and Pubs are red.
It's good, but the colours are backward.
It's good, but the colours are backward.
Whoa, I'm sorry about all of those comments. I thought it kept rejecting my answer, so I kept retrying. Sorry!
@Ikadeo: Thanks for dropping by! It's been weeks since I had the chance to update this blog and all comments are moderated. Sorry for the wait. :)
It's more than a bit biased but if does a decent job.
Actually the colors are not backward. The United States and Switzerland are the only states in which the left wing is represented by the color blue and the right wing is represented by the color red. In the global political spectrum, left wing is red whilst right wing is blue, in correlation with the ROYGBIV order of the colors in the visible light spectrum.
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