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 hours ago

    The color assignments happened by chance. The networks used to arbitrarily choose red or blue or even some other color for each party to show them on the maps, and one network might use different colors than another. Then one year (2000), a year that they were showing R’s as red and D’s as blue, the colors stuck and stayed that way–probably because the counting went on for so long that year.

    https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/when-republicans-became-red-democrats-became-blue-104176297/

    There are plenty of articles online about the subject. I’m old so I remember it myself.