That is incorrect. It is only the coastal edge that is blue. At least 3/4 of the counties are red.
http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/2008_election_county-by-county/
One out of four people here are foreign born (and a large percentage illiterate), and the democrats have got them convinced that republicans boil little brown babies for dinner. There's no way to redeem this state.