NY values speak loud and clear throughout the country. When we are out of state and we say we are NYers, we say upstate NY, not the “city”. If you just say NYer, they assume the city and right away dismiss. Immediately. Lesson learned.....I recall one guy saying you are too nice to be from NY. NYcitiers are brash, rude, arrogant and LOUD. LOL I am sure Cruz was understood. A++++
On my first visit to my daughter after her move to NY (Albany area) that is the first thing that I noticed on the plane — all of the passengers looked like mid-westerners. They were just up-state NYers heading home for Christmas.
It was quite a different gene pool from what I observed when we’d head into Manhatten from her previous home in northern NJ.