Is this a joke?

While thumbing through the comics last Sunday morning, I noticed this Doonesbury cartoon. In it, the reporter Roland Hedley compares how well "Red State" Mississippi has fared as compared to "Blue State" Louisiana.

For the curious out there, Louisiana went for Bush by a solid margin in both 2000 and 2004.

I don't follow Doonesbury, so I don't know if this is a subtle dig at the MainStreamMedia by author Garry Trudeau or if this is just another manifestation of liberal wishful thinking parading as reality. But knowing his political views, I wouldn't be surprised to find out that Trudeau actually believes Louisiana is a "Blue" state. It just has to be; why else would Chimpy McHitlerburton allow it to be destroyed?