“...New Yorkers should think really, really hard before they vote....”
We have good, conservative friends that live in upstate NY. We often talk about NY politics. He put it terms that I could finally understand: he said that IF every single eligible voter in the entire state (outside of the city) voted conservative, there were enough votes within the city to totally cancel em all out...and then some. In essence, NYC politically runs the entire state no matter what.
My son has been a NYC resident since he got out of college 1980. And he's always loved the city. He's sick to his stomach over all this.
People are constantly being reminded how red the country is...it really isn't all that red. Hillary won only 400 counties and Trump won the rest - about 2,800 counties. Many of those red counties have hardly anyone living in them - they are rural and sparsely populated. It's great to see all that red but the reality is, the urban and populated counties are generally very very liberal. Many voting 80% for the dem, so it is tough to win the popular vote.