I don’t think so anymore. I’m Italian from NY. Those of my family still alive are leaving soon or have already left. Are there still many there? Yeah, but NY has become a dumping ground for the nation’s freaks and kooks. To see what’s happening and somehow expect the old NY not to get outvoted on election day would be foolhardy.
Bay Ridge, Staten Island, Bensonhurst, maybe.
Which is why NYS has gone from around 45 House seats to 27 in the last 70 years or so. And, rumor has it, we’ll be down 1 or 2 more after the next census. Good news for the nation, I s’pose, NYS having less representation in the House, but it’s hell on Upstate.