New York 2004-2016 Comparison

[RINO Tom]

The upstate NY economy is sh**t and running as a Wall Street friendly pro trade neoliberal did not impress them.

Regardless of your opinion of what Hillary Clinton actually thinks, saying she RAN AS those things is demonstrably false.  She literally ran ads here in Iowa attacking Trump for being a selfish billionaire who's secretly pro-free-trade, given the amount of outsourcing his business has done...

[RINO Tom]

Makes sense. NYC area has very few counties and most are fairly Safe D, so any huge difference in county maps is going to come from Upstate, which is a minority of the state's population.

For your entertainment, I have been working on these for multiple states using the 2016 Census estimates; here is NY's population breakdown:

DOWNSTATE NEW YORK: 13,719,687
New York City: 8,537,673
Instate Suburbs: 5,182,014
  Long Island Suburbs: 2,854,083
  Hudson Valley Suburbs: 2,327,931

UPSTATE NEW YORK: 6,025,602
Capital Region: 1,085386
Mohawk Valley: 488,321
North Country: 425,035
Central New York: 782,441
Southern Tier: 644,428
Finger Lakes: 1,212,929
Western New York: 1,387,062

All in All:

69.48% Downstate/Greater New York (43.24% NYC, 26.24% Suburbs)
30.52% Upstate New York

For comparison's sake, Illinois is 66.31% Chicagoland, 33.69% Downstate Illinois, so JUST a tad less dominated by its main city.