User talk:Phroughdunne1

Unexplained deletion
Hello, I'm Amatulic. I noticed that you recently removed some content from Union (American Civil War) without explaining why. In the future, it would be helpful to others if you described your changes to Wikipedia with an accurate edit summary. If this was a mistake, don't worry; I restored the removed content. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thanks! ~Amatulić (talk) 22:33, 22 August 2014 (UTC)

Red and blue
Based on your edits so far, you seem to have a misconception about the history and origin of the convention used nowadays to designate a state red or blue. See red states and blue states for a history. This "standard" of coloring political parties didn't even exist until the 2000 presidential election. Furthermore, our modern convention is completely irrelevant in the context of the Civil War. The political parties and demographics of the states weren't even the same back then (for example, the Northern states, which are predominantly Democrat today, were predominantly Republican during the Civil War).

Red and blue designations go back centuries. I recall during a visit to royal palace in Sweden, for example, a ceiling mural depicting a battle with France, in which the Swedish soldiers wore blue capes and armor adornments, and French soldiers wore red. The same artist was commissioned to paint the same battle scene in a royal castle in France, and in that mural, the French are blue and the Swedes are red. The practice of depicting the "home team" as blue in battle scenes has been commonplace for centuries.

This military tradition is even carried into modern times, based on my experience in the military, where battle plans and tactics are described in terms of "blue forces" ("our" side) and "red forces" (the "other" side).

There is nothing wrong with the maps you have been removing, especially since their context is more military than political. Please cease doing this. Thanks. ~Amatulić (talk) 22:58, 22 August 2014 (UTC)