Lawmaker proposes study of NY splitting into 2 states

Times Herald-Record ^ | 2/26/19 | A Pee

[Impala64ssa]

Andrew Cuomo, Son of il sfaccim accusing others of pandering, that's rich! This idea has been floated for decades now. It's has also been around in California for quite some time. It's time to seriously examine these ideas.

[Jeff Chandler]

The New York State of Mind is schizophrenic.

[butlerweave]

NY can’t afford 1 state let alone 2

[Buckeye McFrog]

1) Constitution says a State can only be subdivided with its own consent (Virginia had left the Union which opened the door for West Virginia, as letting them go was made a condition of re-admission).

2) Albany and NYC will NEVER EVER EVER give up their parasitic hosts in Syracuse, Buffalo, Rochester, Binghamton and elsewhere as their thirst for revenue is only exceeded by their lust for power.

This is going nowhere.

[1Old Pro]

But given the upstate region’s lagging economy and shrinking tax base, McMahon cautions that losing access to downstate-generated revenues would be felt from the Adirondacks to Buffalo. “Upstate would need to do a really significant reset of the way government is funded and what it spends, and upstate politicians have not exactly been clamoring for the reforms that it would take to make that happen,” he said. Jordan’s measure doesn’t have a sponsor in the Assembly.

Actually, all they would need is to pass fracking and upstate would be rich.

[FlingWingFlyer]

Go ahead you stupid morons. Keep it up. We’ll divide Texas into 20 states and you stupid maggots will never win another election.

[Paladin2]

One Word:

FRACKING!

[Carriage Hill]

Also, split-off Philly into NJ.
Split-off SoCA back into Mexico.

[BuffaloJack]

New York and New Amsterdam?
I like it. Anything that rid us of New York City is good.

[dfwgator]

New York and New Amsterdam?

Why they changed it, I can't say/People just liked it better that way

[doorgunner69]

Excise NYC from the union entirely. Take urban NJ with you.

[Roccus]

Just a money making boondogle for those insiders who would be on the “working group” and their staffs.

[Dilbert San Diego]

Some have talked of such splits in other states too.

I heard thd western part of Maryland wanted to secede. That part of the state is very different socially and politically from the rest of the state.

I’m sure much of Illinois is very different from Chicago.

I bet we could find the same situation in other states, where a major urban area dominates the state politically.

[Alberta's Child]

Interesting tidbit of history:

The group of universities known as the Ivy League schools were established in colonial times to be the higher learning institutions of the northern Thirteen Colonies. Each northern colony had one school: Harvard (Massachusetts), Dartmouth (New Hampshire), Brown (Rhode Island), Yale (Connecticut), Columbia (New York), Princeton (New Jersey) and Penn (Pennsylvania).

Cornell was established in the 1850s. By that time, there was already a growing sense that "upstate" and "downstate" New York were effectively two different states.

[Old Retired Army Guy]

Splitting California would be a good idea also.

[Buckeye McFrog]

All of what you say is true, but actually doing it will require an amendment to the Constitution. Chicago and Philly aren’t giving up their parasitic hosts either.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Splitting California would be a good idea also.

No, it wouldn't be. The Libs would split it multiple ways. You'd likely get 1 sort of conservative California and 3 liberal ones. A net gain of +4 Democrat Senators.

[The Pack Knight]

Splitting NY into two states would probably mean two more Republican senators. Upstate New York is mostly Republican. If Upstate New York were a separate state in 2016, Trump would have won it by about 100,000 votes.

[gr8eman]

Agreed! It’s only doable if they form a new gubmint and secede from the US!

[nascarnation]

They could legalize fracking and charge NYC big bucks for the hydro generated juice from Niagara.