Patriotic chameleons

This is a problem based on one I saw on someone's Putnam Exam review sheet.

Puzzle

For next year's 4th of July party, you buy 2011 chameleons: some red, some white and some blue. These chameleons have the strange property that whenever two of different colors meet, they both change into the third color. Must there be a color among red, white and blue for which it is impossible for all of the chameleons to simultaneously become that color?

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Hint

You know you have some chameleons of each color. Do you know that there must be two colors with a different number of chameleons in each? What can that difference be? What happens to that difference when two chameleons meet?

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Answer

Yes, there must always be such a color.

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Solution

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