There are ‘red-areas’ of NY as conservative as anywhere else. I live in one of them in the NE part of the state near the Finger Lakes. It’s beautiful here. I’ve only been to Ilion once, it had a nice small town vibe. Unfortunately most of the cities big and small are deep-blue $hitholes run by commie lib-tards. So many of the conservatives like this one are counting the days until we can retire and move.
Florida is New Jersey with stucco and palm trees.
It’s like many “blue states.” Blue in the fact that the number of leftists in just a few big urban cities outnumber the rest of the entire state. California, Oregon, NYS, etc.
Think of those cities as medieval vassal TYRANT strongholds dominating the surrounding landscape. The only real way to overcome them is to siege them.