'Trade wars are good, and easy to win,' Trump tweets

[Labster]

Yeah, the U.S. is weird, we didn't standardize on colors until quite recently, and we did it backwards:

The choice of colors reverses a long-standing convention of political colors whereby red symbols (such as the Red Flag or Red Star) are associated with left-wing politics, and right-wing movements often choose blue as a contrasting color.[5] Indeed, until the 1980s, Democrats were often represented by red and Republicans by blue. The current terminology of "red states" and "blue states" came into use in the United States presidential election of 2000 on an episode of the Today show on October 30, 2000. According to The Washington Post, the terms were coined by journalist Tim Russert, during his televised coverage of the 2000 presidential election.[6] That was not the first election during which the news media used colored maps to depict voter preferences in the various states, but it was the first time a standard color scheme took hold; the colors were often reversed or different colors used before the 2000 election.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_states...lue_states

In related news, I'm going to Scotland this summer, and I'm sure it will be fun to drive on the left side of the road.