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Cynthia Nixon says upstate NY begins around Ithaca
FingerLakes1.com, Inc. ^ | 04/09/2018

Posted on 04/09/2018 8:38:59 PM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines

Cynthia Nixon's answer to a question that has perplexed New Yorkers for generations is turning heads on social media.

Nixon, the Sex and the City actor challenging Gov. Andrew Cuomo, was asked by The New York Times Magazine where she believes upstate New York begins, a query that regularly sparks fierce debate — and a wide-ranging array of responses — on Twitter and Facebook.

Her answer? Somewhere near Ithaca.

"I don't think the Hudson Valley is upstate," Nixon said, according to the Times. "Once you get to Ithaca, by around there, you're starting to get upstate."

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TOPICS: Politics/Elections; US: New York
KEYWORDS: andrewcuomo; blackkk; cityofevil; cynthia; cynthianixon; ericschneiderman; globalwarminghoax; homosexualagenda; ithaca; medicalmarijuana; newyork; nixon
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To: Gene Eric

Yeah man. Glad I was able to enjoy them. Sure wish Garcia had taken better care of himself.


41 posted on 04/09/2018 10:33:57 PM PDT by jmacusa ("Made it Ma, top of the world!'')
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To: aquila48

Yes, I do know about this and that’s an OLD picture of Nixon.
The recent ones, in the N.Y. Post shows her sand the fancy dress, makeup, and hairdo done.


42 posted on 04/09/2018 10:35:32 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

She doesn’t have a clue.

Anything outside NYC area.


43 posted on 04/09/2018 10:59:20 PM PDT by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith..)
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To: zencycler
No, there’s big region north of Rockland and Westchester County that is deemed (by folks living there) to be “Central New York - including Syracuse, Utica and Albany. So they’d tell you to go north of that to be in “Upstate” NY.

CNY goes from just east of Rochester to Utica by us Syracuse area inhabitants.

Albany is the Capital District. It's way to far east to be Central NY.

44 posted on 04/09/2018 11:01:37 PM PDT by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith..)
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

Upstate New York began at 125th street on the
West side and east 96th

When I lived there..


45 posted on 04/09/2018 11:03:08 PM PDT by wardaddy (As a southerner I've never trusted the Grand Old Party.....any questions?)
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To: aquila48

Which one is Nixon?


46 posted on 04/09/2018 11:03:42 PM PDT by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith..)
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To: metmom

The one on the left.


47 posted on 04/09/2018 11:09:34 PM PDT by aquila48
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To: metmom

My comment is based on a colloquial division of the state into three regions - up, down and central. I think yours is based on more regions or districts including western, capital and north country and hudson valley. But note in that schema there is no region that gets labelled as “upstate” or even “downstate” for that matter.

Or to put it another way, if there are only three choices, then is Albany central new york, or upstate?


48 posted on 04/09/2018 11:34:34 PM PDT by zencycler
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To: zencycler

That’s a tough one. Geographically, it’s Upstate, but it’s both too far east to be really central and politically it’s certainly downstate.

In CNY lingo, it’s either Upstate or downstate. I think in general, we in WNY and CNY think of anything from Albany and southeast as *downstate* based mostly on political climate and some on geography.

The other designations are then divining Upstate.

Then it’s:

Western NY (out to about Rochester)

Central (Syracuse area AKA Finger Lakes region. Rochester to Syracuse)

Mohawk Valley (Rome-Utica area)

North Country (north of the Thruway from Syracuse east to the state line)

Capitol District (Schenectady to Albany and towards NYC)

Hudson Valley (Albany down to the city)

The Southern Tier which is anything along the PA border from Jamestown through Corning, Binghamton, on to Schenectady.)

FWIW, many of those designations are established by the state and you’ll see signs to that effect along the Thruway.


49 posted on 04/10/2018 12:14:18 AM PDT by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith..)
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

Anything north of 110th Street.


50 posted on 04/10/2018 1:43:35 AM PDT by Flick Lives
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

I was born and raised in the Hudson Valley.
It used to be considered upstate. It was a beautiful and peaceful part of the state many years ago. Republican run.
Cityiots moved in and ruined it by turning it into the hell hole they left behind. When I return to visit relatives, I don’t recognize it.


51 posted on 04/10/2018 2:50:30 AM PDT by lucky american (Progressives are attac Iking our rights and y'all will sit there and take it.)
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To: metmom

Binghamton- smokin’,drinkin’ and inbreedin’


52 posted on 04/10/2018 2:51:35 AM PDT by Dr. Ursus
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To: lucky american

More than twenty years ago I took a ride up 9W along the Hudson; couldn’t believe how many Hispanics were in those rust-belt towns back then.


53 posted on 04/10/2018 3:30:11 AM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: Mears
I grew up in Rochester and consider(ed) it to be anything north of the line deliminating the northernmost part of the Appalachians - about 50 miles south of the shore of Ontario.

If one discounts the northern foothills (as I do) then you can decide if the finger lakes which are mainly in the zone I picked are fully in the zone then Ithaca is right on the edge at the bottom tip of one of the fingers.

54 posted on 04/10/2018 3:43:21 AM PDT by trebb (I stopped picking on the mentally ill hypocrites who pose as conservatives...mostly ;-})
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

Nixon. Cuomo. SSDD.


55 posted on 04/10/2018 3:44:29 AM PDT by mewzilla (Has the FBI been spying on members of Congress?)
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To: zencycler

I asked mr. mm who is more familiar with state history and politics than I am.

He said that traditionally, *upstate* was anything west of the Hudson River. And NYCer’s considered Albany sort of a detached suburb of NYC.


56 posted on 04/10/2018 3:49:16 AM PDT by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith..)
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To: Mears

Upstate is less a place anymore than a state of mind. If you want government the hell off your back and you’re not demanding your neighbors pay for your lifestyle, you’re Upstate. No matter where I go, I’m Upstate.


57 posted on 04/10/2018 3:51:00 AM PDT by mewzilla (Has the FBI been spying on members of Congress?)
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To: metmom

Albany is NYC’s cesspool.


58 posted on 04/10/2018 3:51:49 AM PDT by mewzilla (Has the FBI been spying on members of Congress?)
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To: Behind Liberal Lines
odd since most Sh!tty dwellers think UPSTATE starts around Yonkers or White Plains
59 posted on 04/10/2018 4:07:07 AM PDT by Chode (You have all of the resources you are going to have. Abandon your illusions and plan accordingly.)
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To: Calamari

Baldwinsville.


^ This


60 posted on 04/10/2018 4:45:40 AM PDT by VTenigma (The Democrat party is the party of the mathematically challenged)
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