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Message: [QUOTE="sutomcat, post: 2583431, member: 27"] [URL='http://www.newyorkupstate.com/news/2018/04/where_is_upstate_new_york_video.html#incart_m-rpt-2']Where is Upstate New York? The debate rages on (video)[/URL] (PS; Tulloch) People in the Capital District really think Syracuse isn't in upstate NY? The home of Upstate Medical Center? The center of upstate NY? They dare to disagree with Captain Kirk? How hard is it to understnad that you make a line, with everything above it upstate and everything below it downstate? [IMG]http://alloveralbany.com/images/new_york_map_broken_into_upstate_downstate.png[/IMG] [I]Where is [URL='http://www.newyorkupstate.com/regions/']Upstate New York[/URL]? The demarcation debate has raged on for years, with lifelong New Yorkers rolling up their sleeves to practice controversial cartography. It's a political sticking point too. New York City-born gubernatorial candidate [URL='http://www.newyorkupstate.com/ithaca/2018/04/cynthia_nixon_thinks_upstate_ny_starts_at_ithaca_and_a_lot_of_people_disagree.html']Cynthia Nixon[/URL] found herself in the crosshairs of statewide attention this month when she casually declared the line started at Ithaca. Ithaca mayor Svante Myrick swiftly told the Rochester [URL='https://www.democratandchronicle.com/story/news/politics/albany/2018/04/09/cynthia-nixon-says-upstate-ny-begins-around-ithaca/498687002/']Democrat & Chronicle[/URL], "We're at least three hours away from the upstate-downstate border, which for me is once you're past Yonkers (heading north), you're in upstate." Actor [URL='http://www.newyorkupstate.com/expo/erry-2018/04/9a9bca94161311/beam_me_upstate_william_shatne.html']William Shatner[/URL] also caused an uproar when he visited Syracuse's Dinosaur Bar-B-Que earlier in April, and sparked another #WhereIsUpstate argument on Twitter. The flurry of attention led The Washington Post to revisit the debate, concluding: "If you can commute to New York City, you're not upstate. North of Poughkeepsie, you can't." The Post's Philip Bump turned to [URL='https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2018/04/18/heres-where-new-yorkers-think-upstate-new-york-is/?utm_term=.2413a95186f2']poll data[/URL] to find a confusing split among Upstate New Yorkers, though a slim majority drew the line North of Westchester. Good grief. We didn't need a Washington-based paper to tell us that. ...[/I] [/QUOTE]

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