Progressive have already turned Upstate NY into a kind of Appalachia and East Germany without the Stasi.
The State is mainly focused on New York City, and its position trading America’s debt at all levels, which is a symbiosis of oligarchs and statist/leftists.
The hollowing-out and extreme debt/financialization (and what it does to politics) is an extreme version of what’s happening in the USA overall.
My part of NJ is included in this (about a dozen miles west of lower Manhattan); people are wising up to the fact that rather than buying homes here, we were just renting them from the teachers’ unions - and when you own them outright, you’ll still pay nearly one thousand a month in union dues (property taxes).
In areas that aren’t very nice anymore...
“...turned upstate into a kind if Appalachia...”
So true and sad. So very many of these once beautiful and thriving upstate downtowns are ghost towns now with an occasional tatoo parlor mixed in for the Section 8 residents that are left.
NYC and its liberal poison is a drain on the entire state.