Do you think there is an occult significance to the recent reversal of color symbolism in the U.S.? By which I mean that when I was growing up, and up through the 70s at least, Red=communist, socialist, left-wing, etc. and Blue= right wing, patriotic (as in true-blue). The association of red with communist was so strong that when Nixon ran for Congress in the 50s he used slightly pink paper to print attacks on his opponent, implying that her politics were socialist.

Then at some point I started seeing references to red states and blue states with these values reversed so that red now equals Republican, conservative, right-wing and blue now equals Democratic, liberal and left-wing. I think this happened in the 80s, but maybe a little later. Given the emotive power of colors, it seems as if this change should mean something, but I can't figure out what.