From: Charles Hixson (charleshixsn@earthlink.net)
Date: Mon Sep 23 2002 - 09:29:04 MDT
Damien Broderick wrote:
>...
>
>Seeing blue and red coded as male and female is interesting and somewhat
>amusing, given that these are the classic British political codes for
>Conservative and Socialist. In Australia, just as matter of empirical fact,
>rather more female than male voters choose conservative candidates,
>proportionately.
>
>Damien Broderick
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One might plausibly wonder at whether the labels denoted the same
political stance in both countries. I would tend to suspect that they
didn't, as what a political party "stands for" tends to change over the
years even within the same country, so I would expect a rapid divergence
between countries (even if they tended to keep largely the same rhetoric).
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