And I believe some southern tier NY counties, who have no voice in how they are governed, would love to become northern tier PA counties!
For many years we in Upstate NY have wanted to split NY into two states, one being New York City and a few counties immediately north of it, and the other being the rest of the state.
We are so freakin' tired of NYC being this huge monetary and political drain on the rest of the state. It's quite likely that the new state of NYC would collapse under its own incompetence, "That's a shame". The new state of UpstateNY would be slightly right-of-center politically and we could get rid of all these stupid leftist regulations and laws.
But I dream on....