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Forty years ago this week, TV started telling the story of the presidential election as a battle between red states and blue states. When the die-hards and political junkies who stayed up until 3: ...

On most Atlas maps of the United States, geographic landmarks have a standardized appearance. Mountain ranges show up as shaded topographies, lakes as blobs of blue, rivers as thin snaking ...

The 1883 map looks not unlike contemporary electoral maps, with much of the south colored red, and the northeast a bastion of blue. But parties represented by each color were reversed: Blue marks ...

The map has also become a symbol of political division in the country. But while red and blue states are now part of our political lexicon, the concept was born out of a competition for ratings.