It always has been urban vs rural.
Problem is that the NY upstaters are moving south and bringing their ignorant voting ways and welfare thinking with them. Trust me we have had a family rent a house in our neighborhood who are nothing but layabouts and welfare collecters
What those who alwarys bark about red vs blue states have yet to understand is there isn’t a major city left in the U.S. which is real conservative.
Not Houston, Dallas, Chicago, NY, Denver, Miami etc...Not one major city I know of could possibly be considered a genuine conservative city. They don’t exist IMO.
No, it’s sane vs. insane.
The fading cities of upstate New York are relics of an age when those locations were actually important in industry. Cities like Buffalo, Rochester and Binghamton became industrial hubs because they could supply water for industrial processes and were located along navigable waterways and/or major railroads.
Once those assets were no longer necessary to support industry (access to cheap electricity and major ports is more important to most industries today), a lot of those cities really lost the "advantage of place" they once had. It's a scene you see repeated all over the Northeast and through the Rust Belt states.
It is not. It is constitutionalist versus progressive.
If that predominates city v country, fine, but it is stereotyping.
The Civil War was similarly arguably state versus country.
But I also think that citizens would like to make the Constitution work if they were brought up to speed on what it’s supposed to do; divide state and federal government powers, the states, not the constitutionally humbled feds, having the lion’s share of government power to serve the people.
Start the Madison Fund as recommended by Charles Murray and beat the liberal elites at their own game by suing them for every possible little reason. Tie them up, force them to spend money to defend themselves, and bleed them until they begin to die a death of a thousand cuts.
My money is on the rural people. At least they can hit what they shoot at.
Ouch.
New York’s problem is actually a Washington Created problem 50 years old. You see most all of our states uses to have a legislative body called a state Senate that mirrored in both form and functionality the U.S. Senate thus giving the various regions of the state representation and thus also veto power in State politics.
The design and intent of which was to prohibit powerful cities from doing exactly what they are now doing in New York and Illinois killing off regional competition by crafting State level policy designed to cripple other economic regions of the state, or such as in the case of Chicago using the rest of the State as a piggy bank bail out mechanism for their own failed politician’s projects, rather than taking responsibility for their own actions. This like New York’s urban dominated policy is of course abusive and unfair to the rest of the state. But without a state senate problems and politics that should have remained local to the people who created them are now unjustly exported to innocent people who had nothing to do with them.
Purge New York from the the Union