The Democratic party is symbolized with a donkey and the party is identified as the "blue" party, while the Republicans have the elephant as their symbol and are known as the "red" party.
The Republican elephant was created by cartoonist Thomas Nast and appeared in_Harper's Weekly_, Nov. 7, 1874. Before then, an 1860 issue of _Railsplitter_ and an 1872 _Harper's Weekly_ also had...