This may be a great angle to pursue. I would retire and move to Salamanca or Cuba if it was part of Pennsylvania. No joke. I hate that downstate NY automatically makes the NY house Democratic. They don’t speak for me and my duck hunting statesmen.
Yep, exactly.
Ironically, I live in Ithaca, arguably the most loony-liberal small city east of the Rockies (I keep my mouth shut in public). So if my dream came true and NYC was dropped off the rest of the state, Ithaca would remain an isolated leftist enclave (Motto: "10 Square Miles Surrounded By Reality"). So not much would change locally, but the state would be able to drop the stupid gun control and lower the taxes, those two things alone would be a blessing.