No doubt. If you go back and look at the same maps say 30-50 years back, the red and blue states are almost reversed, so there is no pattern that will hold up throught the years to validate this comparison.
that only works if you hold to the fantasy held by some here that conservatism...especially the social variety (as if there is any other actually)has always been the province of the GOP.
the South was Dem for 100 years after the Civil War in reaction to Reconstruction brought to the south courtesy of GOP radicals who were anything but socially conservative.