re: Would you live in Seattle suburbs?

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blue collar people union or non union side/vote mostly republican in today's world

JD Vance and Josh Hawley, and even Rubio and Trump sometimes are pro union/populist in certain situations

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More union members support GOP candidates than they historically have, that is true. The vast majority still support Democrats though. I interact with union building tradesman daily, from the PNW to the deep south. While they are not nearly universally Democrats like they once were they are still about 80% Democrats. From a identity politics POV alone the demographics among Union members, AFL unions but especially CIO unions, is the Democratic party's base electorate. There is a VAST difference between blue collar AFL union members (iron workers, for example) and blue-collar CIO union members (food canning employees for example). Either way they are far more likley to vote for Democrats than not.

Eastern Washington is a GOP stronghold. The blue-collar workers in Eastern Washington are far more likely to support GOP candidates than those on the other side of the Cascades. They would be left leaning moderates to progressives in the South relative to the average GOP supporter in the south. They'd be far more like metro Atlanta Republicans than they would be to Florida Panhandle Republicans. Even in Eastern Washington Union blue collar workers are far more likely to support Democrats that Republicans. Not in the same numbers as they once did but still a sizeable majority.