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Originally Posted by bluecountry
See...that again is where you and those arrogant Boston fans are wrong.
You make it sound like FF and New Haven county are only more aligned with NY due to commuters and NY transplants...and that it is by dilution.
Wrong...New Haven has always been much closer to NY than Boston...and has a lot more in common with the NY area.
I really resent the arrogance that because CT is in NE only those areas diluted with transplants go for NY...I feel that natives in SW CT even without transplants grew up rooting for and being more inline with NY.
There is no state of NE...and even if so...NY is two times as close and much more like SW CT in terms of climate and culture.
The NE thing doesn't fly except for Eastern CT.
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I simply deal in facts and only facts. Obviously you can "feel" that natives in SW CT grew up in the shadow of NY making them New Yorkers. But that simply is not the case. Your illogical approach to this issue is very much like the new math. It does not add up.
New England IS a region comprised of six states. The South is a region comprised of something like 11 states. The west coast is a region comprised of 3 states and so on. Apparently you are the only person I've ever heard claim that SW CT is not part of New England.
Applying this very same logic of yours to other situations one can surmise that Fort Erie, ON is part of the Buffalo, NY region. It is not. It has economic and cultural ties to NY just like Niagara Falls, ON but in the end both are their own distinct entities, functioning separately of the whole.
And how about Sharon, PA? It's a suburb of Youngstown, OH and we all know that Ohio is a Midwestern state but PA is clearly a Northeastern state. The people of western PA will be pleased to know that if we apply your logic to determine which region they are classified they'll wind up as a Midwestern state.
And here in Kansas City you have cities and towns in MO and KS that are part of the metro area. But Kansas is basically considered a Plains state while MO is essentially considered a Midwestern state. The counties adjacent to MO in the KC metro area are very similar to the counties in the MO side both culturally and economically but not entirely so. There are differences in each state's counties within the metro area.
The people in Boston don't give a hoot about whether or not CT is not considered part of their sphere of influence. Only the extreme NE corner is truly influenced by the Boston-Worcester metro area and once you get into the Norwich-New London and Hartford markets you have a more distinct CT identity.
My Father was from Long Island, I have family in NY and my roots are in both states. But I don't see anyone from Boston behaving arrogantly about this issue. Nobody from Boston is laying "claim" to Connecticut cities or towns as part of their state. But apparently you believe SW CT is a part of NY state and that is simply not the case.
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