Can Anyone Tell Me What's With the Red States?

Yet another geomeme is making the rounds; I've been meaning to get to this for nearly a week. But I kept putting off even procrastinating (head spins as I try to unravel that one...)

visited 47 states (94%)
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Pretty good for the US- all but Maine, Alaska and Hawaii.

visited 4 states (1.77%)
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Not so hot globally- in fairness, I can't check Antartica, and the Falklands doesn't even show up. So less than 2%. Alrighty, then. Now look, all these red states... there's a connotation that I really don't appreciate.