Maroon

In American blues: Our liberal cousins are in despair. Defenders of the Enlightenment unite! Timothy Garton Ash writes of the American divide,

Red and blue are also more mixed up together than the famous map suggests. Another version produced by the University of Michigan, and reproduced in the Guardian on Tuesday, shows shadings of maroon for the split of the popular vote in different states.

I guess he means this one or this one. But in either case, it's not "maroon", it's purple. What a maroon!