do party colors have anything to do with the red coats or blue coats?

Question

thinking that the republicans where loyal to the queen and the dems where loyal to the democracy and thats where these colors where derived from

Answer 1

Actually, both parties colors are Red, White & Blue.

The whole Red vs. Blue concept was created by network news at the advent of color television. Traditionally, the assigned colors would alternate between general elections, so if a network assigned blue to the Republicans one year, it would be assigned to the Democrats four years later.

The term "Red-staters" to mean Republicans is entirely a product of the last Presidential Election.

Considering how addicted modern media is to sound-bytes and snazzy packaging, it will be interesting to see if they continue the tradition of alternating Red/Blue in 2008.

Answer 2

No, it's much more modern than that-- just an arbitrary decision by some network news while showing the returns from the 2000 presidential elections. They wanted to use red, white and blue as a motif and assigned red to Republicans and bue to Democrats.

Nice theory, though!

There's an article on blue as a polticial color on wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue

Answer 3

No. That's not it at all. It comes from the symbology in the colors of the flag. It has little to do with who's a Tory or who's a revolutionary. The Democrats, courted Europe heavily during the American Civil War, and they were the people in power in the Secessionist States.