purple state
English
Noun
purple state (plural purple states)
- (US, idiomatic) A swing state. (In the modern United States) a state that may support the Democratic or Republican Party (purple states, states that vote for Democratic or Republican Party in general, being red states in some given elections and blue states in other given elections).
See also
- blue state
- green state
- red state
- Appendix:American Dialect Society words of the year
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