Though a common term in political nomenclature, the terms “red state” and “blue state” haven’t been around for as long as you think. According to NPR, the terms were first coined back in ...

The idea that Republicans are red and Democrats are blue may, today, feel embedded in the symbolism, branding and vernacular ...

However, a majority of Tufts students reside in blue states ... Dudley will all go back to relatively conservative households, their communities and states as a whole differ vastly from one another.