[Gritty]

By and large, upstate NY is a whole different country than New Yawk City. The people are more like other "normal" folks in the rest of the country. They are generally much more conservative and decent and not the pushy, arrogant, heavily accented, entitled, big attitude people so typical of those found in the city.

It is the city that drags the rest of the state down. It has done so since the Revolutionary War. It has always been on the side of the "enemy".

Give the tickets to the ones from the city, not the rest of the state. Most of the rest of the state would agree with Tennessee, not Bloominidiot's downtown crowd of urban dwellers and assorted welfare scum.

[Pharmboy]

I lived in both places...for many years...and all I can say is..you are CORRECT!

[Monorprise]

Perhaps the rest of the empire State should secede from the empire. It can’t be fun having those jerks tax & regulate you out of existence.

My only qualm with that is I don’t want New York city or even new york city & Albany to have their own senators. They are by no means an equal to any of us. Still my great sympathies for the poor people of upstate New York. This is the fought of the lawless Federal Supreme court for robing the States of their Republican from of Goverment with the Regionally Representative State Senate.