Dude, stop painting all of us NYers with such a large brush. You're doing exactly what the liberals are doing when they sneer at "fundies." I expect it from them; I expect better from conservatives.
Like talk show hosts, posters to internet forums can't single out every exception to a rule.
True, there are many fine, upstanding, conservative New Yorkers. Equally true, there are MANY MORE leftist moonbats that would turn us into a communist state if they had their way.
It is a local problem, for locals to solve. I'll say it again: reap what ye have sown.
Now you get an idea of what we Kalifornia FReepers get to put up with; but we tend to catch it on a daily basis...(and usually for good reason)