Upstate Secessionists Demand Freedom From City They Mooch Off Of. this is a great idea. NYC would do much better, as well as singapore per capita if managed properly.

On Sunday, a few 100 people rallied in Bainbridge, New York, a village of 3300 between Binghamton and Oneonta, to promote the idea of upstate secession. The protest was organized by a group called the Divide New York Caucus, which wants to sever the state above Rockland and Westchester counties. Because actually seceding would require state legislative and congressional approval, man-with-a-dream John Bergener Jr. proposes divvying the state into 2 autonomous regions through a voter referendum, calling the new one New Amsterdam, and leaving a figurehead legislature in place at the state level. The pie-in-the-sky scheme is no mere intellectual exercise, its architect insists.

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