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No particular reason. The color could be ANY color, but magnet makers began dipping one pole in paint to mark the North pole, and red paint was available. Over time, it just became the color ro use.

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Sales Hitch Just to clarify it's a magnet, like the old road runner Cartoons, it's was to signify the difference when coyote tried to catch the road runner between a maget, or a Horse Shoe!!

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first of all they are not red and blue they are white and red. it has something to do with the wires

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