“That one example just so happens to be the biggest and most powerful city in the country”
Yet it’s still just a single example. If 99% of obese people died of heart attacks, but the 1 fattest man in the world doesn’t, it doesn’t mean that obesity is not causing heart attacks.
Um, New York City has more congressmen, a far bigger population, far bigger economy than most cities/towns in this country and a bigger economy,
population, more congressmen etc than South Dakota, North Dakota, Alaska etc etc. Its not any old “one state”.