Red States, Blue States

Did you ever wonder how the Main Stream Media came to choose these colors for the states based on their voting records?

I expect it went this way:

"Well we do not want people to realize the Democrat, Progressive, Liberal states are Socialist, so we must not make them the Red States. We also do not want these states to be associated with the blood bathes which have occurred in so many socialist countries."

"So, the Red States will have to be those which vote Republican or Conservative. After all, most of the people in those states are just ignorant, racist REDnecks."