Would a separate State of Upstate New York be more Republican and more prosperous than West Virginia? Would it do well if it was free of NYC?
Well, I doubt we’d be rolling in dough, but you can bet we wouldn’t be as generous with the social programs as Albany is. As for more Republican....Let’s just say we’d be more conservative :)
Aside from Wall Street (and even that is suspect now), upstate is the only part of NY that produces anything. Just like middle America produces everything for the urban coasts. If the American ghettos want their milk, beef, pork, corn, and wheat, let ‘em come begging. They can keep their fancy offices where people crunch numbers for a living but produce nothing tangible. Let the welfare recipients in NYC fish in the East River for their food if they are so hungry.
Yes, we’d probably be more conservative, like we used to be. Our farms are slowly disappearing and we need some help from our representatives, who really do NOT represent us because they aren’t from rural areas and they’re rich.