Yeh, this is also true in Illinois. If New York City and Chicago would secede, the rest of those states would be pretty happy as their countrified selves.
......If New York City and Chicago would secede.....If,..... passive wishful thinking
Consider another concept, a more positive action. “If New York City and Chicago were purged from the Union.....”
The socialist blue states should be kicked out
Unfortunately liberalism has sunk its ugly teeth a lot further than NYC in my home state.
I wish that were true. The suburban counties of New York (Nassau, Suffolk, Westchester, etc.) tend to vote Democratic in national elections, only occasionally going RINO for governor.