UCS for Political parties

is there a universal color scheme for Political parties of the past? (i'm talking in the USA, like Federalist Party or Know-Nothings) if not, why not? and if not what would you do for a color scheme?
 
Do you mean you want to know the colors that represented past parties or colors that represent ideologies parties with those ideologies used?
 
There is no universal color scheme for political parties, at least thru the advent of colour photography. The closest thing would be the colors of national uniforms before the adoption of khaki. Certain colors developed particular means over the ages, like yellow and red, etc. tho such adoptions were dependent upon the conventions of either one or a few nations.
 

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The Constitutional Union Party had Orange as their colour. A successful Bell presidency may also turn their party symbol into a Bell :)

Greenback Party is obvious - Green
 
The problem with this is the relativly fragile nature of political parties. They form, fragment, evolve, and collapse in way that a UCS cannot really cover. So political structure, and therefore underlying details like party colours, is far more volitaile than, say, nationstates themselves. Even in OTL, it took a while for the televisio networks to formalize whether the democrats or republicans were red or blue. I think that UCS for parties are, beyond certain timeperiod constants (ex: 20th century american elections with democrats and republicans as the major parties), pretty much impossible except for a timeline to timeline basis, and should thus be left up to individual authors.
 

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For the USA?

The colours Wikipedia uses are as good as any, I think. As said above, it's arbitrary because political colours weren't used consistently until recently.
 
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