Democrat Adam Gray has flipped one of his party’s highest-priority seats in California’s Central Valley, booting Republican Rep. John Duarte from office in the last House race in the country ...

In the other five seats, Democrats were playing on blue-tinted territory ... trends for the party even in its victories, such as Gray’s whisper-thin win in a majority-Latino district where ...

The idea that Republicans are red and Democrats are blue may ... s Union Army was often identified by its dark blue uniforms, versus the gray traditionally worn by the Confederate’s military.