New York is, and has been for some time, the quintessential “blue” state, if only because the City of New York has such a preponderance of weight in the state. Back in 1963 Barry Goldwater suggested that taking a saw and cutting the five boroughs off entirely from the mainland, and letting it float out to sea, may be a good hypothetical to follow up on.
Almost all of New York City is based on islands anyway. Only The Bronx is attached to the mainland, while the major part of the city of the city is on Long Island.
I can barely watch Fox News any more, they are so in to Trump. Yesterday, Martha McCallum (one of the news babes I like the most) was all a twitter about the attention everyone was paying to NY. She said “It feels good to have everyone paying attention to us now” (meaning NYC). FGS, NY dominates the country’s culture all the time...and the fashion, and the judicial system, etc., etc. ad nauseum!
I made me think of that old poster that they used to sell of Manhatten that showed the rest of the country (and even the state of NY) as wilderness.
Get real, Martha!