Exactly, the red states wouldn’t even know there was anarchy on the coasts.
Georgia is a red state, and there would be a bloodbath around Atlanta and Savanah.
I lived in LA county during the Rodney King riots. We were a couple miles from the curfew zone, and could see the smoke pyres from the burning buildings. That Saturday we went to the beach in Orange county, maybe 20 miles from our house. Folks there had no idea what was going on just up the road from them. So I think you are very right.