New York City's population is roughly 40 percent of the whole population of New York State -- a proportion that makes itself very clear in this fun cartogram made by Andy Arthur -- it's a map of New York State counties warped according to their populations.
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This is why we should chop off the succubus at orange county and have a state that makes sense.
... said Kerri on Jan 27, 2016 at 11:42 AM | link
If cows, woodchucks, and deer could vote, well then....
... said Bob on Jan 27, 2016 at 1:16 PM | link
And queue the misinformed argument about how downstate is leaching upstate. See the link below for how much of a shaft downstate gets in terms of revenues in and revenues out (and this doesn't factor in the large sums of Upstate Revitalization Money being pumped into upstate). Clearly, downstate subsidizes everything North of Westchester/Rockland.
http://www.rockinst.org/observations/wardr/2011-12-giving_getting.aspx
I think the dream of a separate upstate, detached from downstate, is just that a dream. The fiscal realities of how much revenue this new state would lose out crushes any such premise. Yes, you could tinker around the margins and remove some of the more odious regulations or "unfunded state mandates" that artificially drive up local property taxes, but at the end of the day, citizens would be hard pressed to loose much of that regulatory infrastructure, baring some of the more ridiculous. You can just look at how impossible it is to remove these mandates or streamline government, in upstate NY's own backyard: Yates and Schuyler County embarked on an ambitious two year plan to merge county functions to shave costs--end result; we like things just as they are despite the costs savings. Doesn't read well for a future and separate "Upstate New York."
... said Rich on Jan 27, 2016 at 1:20 PM | link