listen man, it's just NYC that ruins it for the rest of us up here! As I said, it pains me to think I could care less if NYC burned to the ground!
Rural Upstate NY is one of the most conservative places around. We just can't match NYC in voting numbers! There are 12 million people living in about 10% or less, area wise, of our state. The other 4 million or so scattered across the "frontier" can't out-vote the socialists.
there are two New Yorks
similar situation here in GA, with Atlanta ruling the roost.
I understand it is the same deal in Illinois with Chicago.
There might be some justice in the idea of turning all urban areas into their own city-states, freeing the non-urban remainder of the states to have laws of their own.
The founders never envisioned such lopsided population concentrations either (for those who like to keep spouting off about what the founders did and did not envision)