Idiom
blue state
Meaning
A state of the United States voting Democratic in a given election, or tending to vote Democratic in general.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“California is a blue state.”
“My cousin lives in a blue state on the East Coast.”
“The news reporter says this region is no longer a blue state.”
“She moved from a blue state to a red state and noticed the political culture was very different.”
“Local leaders in this blue state are currently debating new laws to increase the minimum wage and expand public healthcare.”
“If you want to work in environmental policy, you might find more job opportunities in a blue state with strict green regulations.”
“Though he had grown up in a blue state where progressive values were taken for granted, he found himself in heated debates with his new neighbors in rural Texas.”
Examples
simple
“California is a blue state.”
“My cousin lives in a blue state on the East Coast.”
“The news reporter says this region is no longer a blue state.”
contextual
“She moved from a blue state to a red state and noticed the political culture was very different.”
“Local leaders in this blue state are currently debating new laws to increase the minimum wage and expand public healthcare.”
“If you want to work in environmental policy, you might find more job opportunities in a blue state with strict green regulations.”
complex
“Though he had grown up in a blue state where progressive values were taken for granted, he found himself in heated debates with his new neighbors in rural Texas.”
Origin
A compound of blue + state, derived from the use of the colour blue to represent the Democratic Party of the United States. It identifies a state that votes Democratic, serving as a subnational division or province-level designation within the American electoral map.
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