NYS has lost almost half its House seats over the last 60 years.
Guess why.
BTW, I know lots of folks who’ve fled NYS. Not one is rich or a lib.
And I am one who will be leaving also.
And I am one who will be leaving also.
Myself and my three brothers all left after going to SUNY colleges in the 1980’s.
Almost everyone I grew up with in my neighborhood left. Of the several dozen kids, we all left to find opportunities elsewhere. I grew up in Orchard Park, NY one of the nicest suburbs of Buffalo. Almost all the middle class and upper middle class kids I grew up with left after high school or college.
There were no jobs there unless you worked for the government, the Ford stamping plant or a bank. I only know of two friends from my neighborhood that stayed. One owns a landscaping business. The other one got one of those coveted union jobs. Everybody else bailed.