A plurality say England is red. Click a color to add your vote.
England is red because…
“The red stripes on the flag.”
“The English flag is a big, red cross.”
“The soldiers wear red.”
“Buses, telephone booths, uniforms, and the cross on the flag.”
“Double decker buses.”
“The English flag is red and white, and the red overpowers the white, so England is red.”
“The Labour party is currently in power.”
“The British were known as the Redcoats during the American Revolution.”
“Iconic English things like buses, phone booths, and the guard uniforms are red.”
“The british army uniforms were red throughout the 16th to 20th centuries.”
“The Cross of St. George.”
“It reminds me of the flag, as well as the wars.”
“During the American Revolution they wore red coats.”
“There’s red on the flag.”
“The red cross in the Union Jack is very prominent.”
“Because of the flag.”
England is blue because…
“Rain.
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“Blue-blooded royalty.”
“Everyone there is very polite and the accent is very smooth which are both correlated with the color blue. Also, it is a very rainy place and surrounded by the sea.”
“It’s surrounded by the sea, and it’s very rainy.”
“Blue just feels pure and light and happy. England for me is just a happy place where everyone is nice. I feel like British people are just blue.”
“Most of its flag is blue and its surrounded by blue water, aka the sea.”
“It’s an island, so it’s surrounded by sea. It also feels blue in a way I can’t explain.”
“The flag, and because England is cold.”
“Their lovely blue passport.”
“When I think about England, I see the color blue, like the sky.”
“It’s the main color on the flag.”
“It’s surrounded by blue water, and the flag is mainly blue.”
“The flag has blue on it and I think it is usually kind of rainy in England, which is represented by blue. ”
“I’m English, and our skies are usually grey, so when they’re blue—like today!—it tends to stick in my mind.”
England is white because…
“Majority of flag is white.
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“The flag is mostly white.
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England is grey because…
“Fog.”
“Fog and misery.”
“Grey because of the stone castles and other stone monuments.
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“Foggy and rainy.”
“The weather is grey.
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“It’s always dull and rainy.”
“Look up!”
“English people seem calm and elegant, just like grey.”
“Overcast weather.”
“It’s always cloudy and the food is bland.”
“Fog.”
“Cloudy and rainy.”
“Grey is boring, and England is boring.”
England is green because…
“I think of green hills.”
England is yellow because…
“The Crown.”
England is purple because…
“Purple was the color of royalty in the early days of England, and England makes me think of royalty.”
“I was in England when I was really little and Big Ben was being fixed so they covered the clock with a purple cloth, so now I see England as purple.”
“I associate purple with royalty, and royalty with England.”