red state, n. and adj.
Pronunciation: Brit. /ˈrɛd steɪt/, U.S. /ˈrɛd ˌsteɪt/
Etymology: < red adj. + state n.
A. n
1. A Communist state. Cf. red adj. 18.
1923 Chicago Tribune 18 Oct. 1/3 (heading), 2 red states defy German dictator rule.
1954 Jrnl. Polit. 16 44 Those who control our destinies are greatly afraid of the power of first one huge Red state, the Soviet Union, and then of a second, China.
2006 Jerusalem Post (Nexis) 17 Dec. 13 China is also a far cry from the isolationist and anti-Western Red state over which Mao once presided.
2. U.S. Polit. A state (projected to be) won by the Republican candidate in a presidential election. More generally: a Republican state; a state which tends to vote Republican. Cf. blue state n.
[With reference to the colour used on maps in televised coverage of the 2000 U.S. presidential election to distinguish the states won by the Republican candidate, George W. Bush, with blue being used for the states won by the Democratic candidate. The colour designation is an arbitrary one, and indeed the attribution of the two colours had been reversed in media coverage of various elections prior to 2000.]
2000 NBC News: Today Show (transcript) (Nexis) 30 Oct., (Electoral map of the United States shown.) Lauer: The red states we have here, you have going..for George Bush, the blue states for Al Gore... Russert:..So how does he get those remaining 61 electoral red states, if you will?.. Bush desperately needs these 18 electoral votes in Michigan.
2000 Washington Post 11 Nov. a27/1 Bush could be the president of the Confederate States of America, to include all the red states on both sides of the Mississippi.
2001 N.Y. Mag. 1 Oct. 18 [He]..wrote adoringly of the humble red states that are behind the president, as opposed to the ‘decadent’ blue states.
2005 BusinessWeek 31 Jan. 70/3 They are moving to value-priced regions of the country, creating tiny pockets of blue America in the heart of the red states.
2008 B. Obama in N.Y. Times (Electronic ed.) 7 May a1 The attempts to play on our fears and exploit our differences,..to slice and dice this country into red states and blue states.
B. adj.
U.S. Polit. Of, relating to, or characteristic of red states (sense A. 2) or their residents; Republican.
2001 B. Williams in MSNBC (transcript) (Nexis) 27 Feb., It's a red state president reaching out to a blue state tonight
2003 Washington Post (Electronic ed.) 10 Aug. b1 If you debate when to take your first buck in deer-hunting season, you are red-state.
2006 ‘B. Allan’ Antiques Roadkill ix. 169 Spare me the ‘Christian’ values. You're red state, I'm blue state, and never the twain shall meet.
2008 Village Voice(N.Y.) 26 Mar.–1 Apr. 63/2 She puts blue-collar, red-state American life on-screen without glib irony or smug disdain.
Derivatives
ˈred stater n. a resident of a red state (sense A. 2).
2000 OC Weekly (Nexis) 15 Dec. 20 Red staters have long been captivated by the glamorous goings-on in the land of blue.
2008 National Jrnl.(U.S.) 16 Feb. 61/2 An energized grassroots progressive movement might push a President Obama toward liberal positions that red-staters could not easily adopt.
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