NY may aspire to look like WVA, but I don’t think they can make it. NY is too poor, and lacks any sense of proprty rights.
West Virginia stated emptying out during WWII and despite Bobby Bird’s roadbuilding is not filling back up. Maybe when corrider H is finished and Canaan’s and Tygart’s River vallies are hooked up to NOVA that part of the state will look more like Vermont. God help WV in that case.