The first Red Dawn was also a Red State wet dream in that the Russians chose to conquer the US starting with the sparsely populated central western states that are of little strategically, economic, cultural, or political value, but are a hotbed of anti-government survivalist xenophobic racist wingnuts.
What Western-state conservatives hate to admit most is that blue states are where all the important stuff is, and foreigners will never invade their home town because no one has ever heard of it or can find it on a map.