Cooperstown is not Perry, Lowville, or Arcade.
These are the places where the real New York is in terrible distress. No jobs, unless you work for the government (i.e. teacher, DPW, Social Services, etc.) The property taxes are astronomical on shacks, and other dwellings, sales taxes, income taxes, excise taxes.
While Cooperstown is a cute little “berg” and there are a few little towns dotted across the area where their fate has not been destroyed by the loss of the main employer, there are many thousands of little town that are zombie hellholes. The problem is that NYC has more voters then all of upstate and western NY, and we get stuck with morons like Cuomo and Hillary, and Schumer.
Absolutely no argument. My wife’s aunt and cousins lived in Webster. Two cousins worked for Xerox, one for Kodak. They were all Christian liberals. Welfare was God’s will. They really had a beautiful lifestyle twenty-five years ago. Been to the Broom County Fair, had Buffalo wings before they were kewl, but still delicious.
But even then Seabreeze Park, and Seneca Park Zoo were starting to be overrun by unruly little feral welfare brats, who were intended to grow up to be welfare voters.
Cuomo’s father knew where this was headed. He didn’t care. Ruin the state so long as it was Democrat. It is a shame what happened .
The Curley Effect:
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/viewSubCategory.asp?id=1891