That IS the infamous state of Neu Yuk, IIRC.
In what way is this surprising?
New Yuk state has been treasonous since the days of the Revolutionary War, when many Neu Yukkers supported King James.
Having been graduated from a Mid-Hudson Valley school, I had to live in the contradiction which rots the soul of the Neu Yuk resident. The Big Shity, AKA New York City, is a core area of communism in America, second only to Chi-Congo, AKA Chicago.
Commies and queers have always been allies against America.
Bah! Humbuggery!
A plague upon both of their kind.
Ummm, King James was at least a century and a half before King George III but your point is spot on. They were a loyalist stronghold during the revolution, a democrat, antiwar, pro-slavery stronghold during the Civil War. NY and NYC was one of the primary birthplaces of the democrat-union-communist-mafia triumvirate criminal enterprise.