Years ago, every network had blue states as Republican, and red states as Democrat.
Then, the media and Democrats got together and had it swapped, because they feared that "Red" was associated with Marxism/Communism (which it is).
Even today, I simply reject the labels of Blue and Red.
Further there are no Democrat or Republican states anymore. All the cities are now majority Democrat, the countryside is majority Republican, and the suburbs are mixed. It used to be much more geographically mixed but the power obsessed Democrat politicians discovered it was much easier and cheaper to buy votes out of the Devil dens. They transformed into the city slicker party only because it is the path of least resistance to maximum power. But whether it is a wise strategy to have all your eggs in a small number of baskets remains to be seen.