77% of national flags contain red.
...Which is a bit disturbing because it is generally used to refer to bloodshed or might in battle - partially in a "let's honor the past" sort of way, but mostly in a "don't fuck with us" sort of way.
On the flip side, red is also commonly used to represent love and passion.
Red. It is used and associated with countless movements, flags, banners, all across the political spectrum.
Black has the most universal meaning of solidarity, seriousness, mourning, and formality across cultures and peoples.
Japanese budhist monks use black for their clothes as it simbolizes purity, or as black being the most pure color. In very few instances, they may wear purple or gold, but that's due status and a latter addition.
In a funeral, only the deceased would wear white, I don't remember why though, but for a while wearing white was in bad taste.
Wearing all black is also common for the Catholic clergy, and for a long time most brides used black for their wedding dress: https://kentuckykindredgenealogy.com/2014/12/13/history-of-the-black-wedding-dress/
Purple is probably the only one that I’m aware of on your list where there’s a legit logic behind it, since dyes used to be harder to come by
Probably purple because of how historically inaccessible it was
Not a single color, but in Chinese tradition there were five colors of equal political significance corresponding to the Wuxing cycle of changes—black, red, cyan, white, and yellow. Each dynasty was associated with a color (with other associated traits), and was expected to be followed by one of two other colors (depending on whether the succession would be peaceful or revolutionary).
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