My wife's sister says that the base closings are punishment for the "blue" states. She uses Fort Monmouth here in New Jersey as an example.
If I understand what they do there correctly (communications & electronics R&D) they could move just about anywhere, and doing so would move their people out of one of the highest cost of living areas of the country.
One example will refute that: the 90% closure of Eielson AFB will knock Fairbanks back to the 1993 economic level, and Fairbanks is the most Conservative part of a Conservative state.
They are "Re-aligning" Alaska's Eielson AFB.
Certainly not a blue state.