Land masses don't vote. NY sucks because of new Yorkers; not only does the majority of the population want to be slaves, but they want the rest of the country enslaved too. The heart of darkness is NYC Even when I lived there the attitude of most of the people I worked with and knew was insufferably smug and self absorbed, and above all liberal. Mention guns and it was if you wanted to discuss incest.
Still solid 1/3 went conservative in NYS. I was born in the Bronx. Moved out for the burbs at 15 and bought my first shotgun at 16. Dad helped he being first a marine then NYPD, bought me a 22 when I was 10. Out in the country where I hunt. Those folks could be from anywhere USA.