Unfortunately, in my experience, the Finger Lakes is experiencing, at a micro level, the same thing as red states surrounding CA. The campus leftists have thoroughly ruined Ithaca and Tompkins County and are now spreading out into the neighboring counties and changing the political composition there.
It’s not just collegiate leftists. There’s is a lot of migration from Upstate’s major metros into smaller Upstate cities. Elmira, host city to two maximum security prisons, has had influx from Syracuse and Rochester. Not enough to stop the city’s population decline, but enough to cause other issues.
Somehow I doubt those are all college kids.