You probably didn’t hear this on the news, and I thought you might be interested.

Some of the Scott Brown campaign signs read “Black Friday, White Christmas, Brown Tuesday” referring to the January 19 vote.

Some of the local media and papers referred to the day he passed his challenger in the polls and the subsequent momentum as the “Brownout”.

There were many disaffected Democrats who referred to themselves as “Brown Democrats“ (borrowing from the 1980’s mantra “Reagan Democrats”) when interviewed, or when gathering.

On January 20, without any organization that I am aware of, many people wore some piece of brown colored clothing in tribute to Scott Brown’s win. I saw many folks at my work in Cambridge (of all places) doing this and they admitted to it when asked- none of them said it was due to some notice on a website or concerted effort.

The most interesting (and indulge my explanation): A mid 2000’s TV show called ‘Firefly’ (sci-fi) featured army soldiers called ‘Browncoats’. For a while, you could buy brown colored T-shirts with the word ‘Browncoats’ on the front, and on the back there was a quote on it from the star of the show, “I aim to misbehave.” I saw someone wearing one of these T shirts in tribute 9by their admission) to Scott Brown.

How great is that? People wearing brown on January 20th without any concerted effort? That’s awesome! That is what happens when people are excited about a major event.

Let’s hope that Scott Brown can make the rest of the nation as excited as he’s made our countrymen up in Massachusetts!