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Another question... this time about the liquor laws.
In Texas, the laws are opressive. No liquor sales on Sundays, some places you can't buy alcohol period. No liquor sales in grocery stores... I take it New York State is much different in that regard, but can someone correct me if I am wrong?
Here in NY you can buy beer in any grocery or convenience store but need to go to liquor stores for the hard stuff (and they are open on Sundays after noon). Buffalo bars are open until 4 am.
That being said NYS isn't anywhere near as liberal as many of you right wingers claim it to be. In fact much of Upstate is very Conservative (by northern standards). 8 of the 12 General Assembly members from WNY are Republican ...... but you feel free to continue to generalize the whole metro area based solely on the leanings of inner city Buffalo.
If upstate was cut off from NYC/LI and a maybe few ultra liberal counties abutting them, this could be actually close to a "red" state. Upstate is, at the very least, on the conservative side of blue. If you take all the inner cities and a few locales like Ithaca ( which should be, IMHO, stuck in the San Francisco area, not central NY) out of the mix, you basically remove all the ultraliberals.
Unfortunately, since NYS is basically still run by Dems at the state level, we are Congressionally gerrymandered into insanity. ReppingDFW should look at one of our Congressional maps and who is where if he is interested in the political leanings, as well as the state and county maps. He should keep in mind that we will be destroyed by Albany redistricting prior to the next national election and also that no matter what, while we are attached to the millions of warm bodies down in NYC, we will always remain blue.
Funny how all those "ultra-liberal" areas, SF, Ithaca, NYC/LI, seem to be faring a bit better than many other places financially. Just an observation. I wonder if those areas prosper during economic boom times?
If upstate was cut off from NYC/LI and a maybe few ultra liberal counties abutting them, this could be actually close to a "red" state. Upstate is, at the very least, on the conservative side of blue. If you take all the inner cities and a few locales like Ithaca ( which should be, IMHO, stuck in the San Francisco area, not central NY) out of the mix, you basically remove all the ultraliberals.
Unfortunately, since NYS is basically still run by Dems at the state level, we are Congressionally gerrymandered into insanity. ReppingDFW should look at one of our Congressional maps and who is where if he is interested in the political leanings, as well as the state and county maps. He should keep in mind that we will be destroyed by Albany redistricting prior to the next national election and also that no matter what, while we are attached to the millions of warm bodies down in NYC, we will always remain blue.
I doubt the Gerrymandering in NY could be worse than Texas... especially with our new maps.
Here in NY you can buy beer in any grocery or convenience store but need to go to liquor stores for the hard stuff (and they are open on Sundays after noon). Buffalo bars are open until 4 am.
I doubt the Gerrymandering in NY could be worse than Texas... especially with our new maps.
Please tell me what conservative Clarence/Lancaster in Eastern Erie County has in common with Ithaca ( it is in one proposed map of the gerrymandering of NY 26). It is a potential map; contacted all my reps and all said it is preliminary..We won't know who we vote for for months. (Gotta love the gys in Albany) All I see is that is ensures a Dem district of no common issues as Albany lives in fear they won't entrench a Dem -- just like the "C" gerrymandering of Slaughter's district last time.
A district is supposed to be made of like-minded people who live in the smallest possible area. NYS makes it gerrymander to ensure king Chuckles Schumer gets his kingship renewed so that Albany gets favors.
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