Red Tribe

English Etymology en Q98400007 in a 2014 blog post (see quotation), from the red colour of the Republican Party. Proper noun Red Tribe 1 A loosely-defined culture in the United States associated with small-town culture and the Republican Party. en Blue Tribe Grey Tribe en Scott Alexander I Can Tolerate Anything Except The Outgroup w:Slate Star Codex https://web.archive.org/web/20230724074223/https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/09/30/i-can-tolerate-anything-except-the-outgroup/ 30 September 2014 The Red Tribe is most classically typified by conservative political beliefs, strong evangelical religious beliefs, creationism, opposing gay marriage, owning guns, eating steak, drinking Coca-Cola, driving SUVs, watching lots of TV, enjoying American football, getting conspicuously upset about terrorists and commies, marrying early, divorcing early, shouting "USA IS NUMBER ONE!!!", and listening to country music. Conor Friedersdorf Conor Friedersdorf Oregon and the Injustice of Mandatory Minimums https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/01/oregon-mandatory-minimums/422433/ https://web.archive.org/web/20260606114322/https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/01/oregon-mandatory-minimums/422433/ 6 June 2026 5 January 2016 And likening them to mass murderers amounts to irresponsible, indefensible demonization. It is unimaginable, save for the fact that the targets of state violence in this case are rural white men from the Red Tribe. Cade Metz Silicon Valley's Safe Space https://web.archive.org/web/20230728131232/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/13/technology/slate-star-codex-rationalists.html 13 February 2021 Mr. Siskind was not a member of the Blue Tribe. He was not a voice from the conservative Red Tribe ("opposing gay marriage," "getting conspicuously upset about terrorists and commies"). He identified with something called the Grey Tribe — as did many in Silicon Valley. en Marcus T. Anthony WWW: Web Wide Warfare Part 2 - Towards a Deeper Healing of the Online Culture Wars w:Journal of Futures Studies 1 New Taipei City w:Tamkang University Press September 2021 26 34 10.6531/JFS.202109_26(1).0003 1027-6084 190845334 The blue/red dichotomy is admittedly an oversimplification of the reality that the culture wars now feature multiple memetic tribes, as Limberg and Barnes (2018) outline. Roughly aligned with the Blue tribe are groups like the establishment left, social justice activists, Black Lives Matter, #MeToo, Neo-Marxists and far-left radicals like Antifa; while aligned with the Red tribe are the establishment right, Benedictines, Christian right, Trumpists, Infowarriors and the Alt-right.