Blue Wall and Red Wall (or Red Sea)

Ronald Brownstein claims to have coined the term "blue wall" in 2009.

• Ronald Brownstein claims to have coined the term "blue wall" in 2009.
• The "Blue Wall" or the 18 U. S. states that previously thought to lean so strongly Democratic and with a high enough population to make future presidential elections difficult for Republicans until 2016.
• The Red Wall or Sea is a group of states Republicans have considered bankable over the last seven election cycles-typically, these are in sparsely populated, primarily rural parts of America.The term "red wall" (or "red sea") is less commonly used to refer to states that Republicans have consistently won in previous election cycles.