Reds

Etymology
In reference to the ancient Roman and medieval Byzantine racing faction, a calque of or   and.

Proper noun

 * 1)   in various contexts.
 * 2)  Any of several sports teams whose uniform is predominantly red, particularly
 * 3)  The chariot-racing faction of the Roman circus and Constantinopolitan hippodrome that wore red.
 * 4) * 2002,, The Age of Justinian..., p. 38:
 * 's successors had alternative suggestions, the most persistent of which has been that the Blues were supporters of religious orthodoxy and the Greens of Monophysitism. According to this view, the emperor, whose Monophysitism was notorious, should have been a Green, though contemporary evidence makes him a Red.