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Being from upstate NY, certainly not mid-atlantic.
"Mid-atlantic" to me is RI down the coast.
Out in western NY, we are the eastern branch of the midwest. That breaks geographically at the Genesee and Susquehanna river basins with the mountains.
Binghamton is where mid-atlantic truly begins to shape in NY. Or Albany downward. North and west, very different.
The ADKs of NY are different as well; Vermont, NH, the ADKs are more like Quebec than they are mid-atlantic or the Maritimes.
MA (even western MA for the most part since it's only 90 min from the coast) is the beginning of the Maritimes influence. Maine is basically Canada for all intents and purposes. That connection is 400 years old. French Canadian influence in Northern NY, VT, and NH is generations old.
Most of New England bears more resemblance to the Mid-Atlantic. Only the parts near the Canadian border are ones I would associate as being more like the Canadian maritime, so probably Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine.
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