In America, the conservative party is red and the liberal is blue, but in Canada the liberal party is red whole the conservatives are blue.

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[–] 11 points 2 weeks ago

The US didn't use colours for political leanings until 2000 when this whole blue, red, and purple terminology started in earnest. And using red for the conservative side is certainly unique.

Red has traditionally been the colour of socialism/social democrats. All the other colour assignments tend to vary by country. But blue or black or thereabouts tends to be conservative. Green introduced itself in the 70s.

Canada is just normal in terms of "political colours."

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