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Do you guys align yourselves more with Bergen County/North Jersey or more with Westchester County? Which do you identify with more and which do you end up traveling to more?
- Rockland is separated from WC by a large toll bridge and wide river; but is still within the same state.
- Rockland shares the same landmass and feeds into NJ...but has a different stare govt.
I think Rockland residents would say Bergen and not Westchester. Rockland is shaped in a triangle, so it has essentially 3 borders. One, as you say, is a 3 mile wide river with only one crossing and its a significant one. The NW border is with Orange but it involves a HUGE park, which means it is not really a border at all. Also, Orange seems to be very much in a slightly different region - it is more linked to Sullivan and Duchess counties. Rockland and Bergen, on the other hand, is a completely porous border with an endless array of streets crisscrossing back and forth, and people cross that border all the time without much thought. It is also Rockland's pathway to the City - for most people via the Palisades Parkway. Also, it is common for kids in Rockland to attend HS in NJ - almost no one goes to Westchester for this.
The only real connection Rockland has with Westchester is with interscholastic sports. Rockland is grouped with Westchester/Putnam/Southern Duchess, and not with Orange, and obviously not with Bergen.
In fact, if you were to redraw the state borders today, Rockland would be much more likely put into NJ than NY.
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I never felt that Rockland really associated with anyone, in the beginning many of those moving to Rockland did so because Westchester was getting too expensive even in the late 50's. They used to refer to us as upstate because we were north of Bronx but heck if we were anymore downstate we would have been in NJ.
This concept of "Do you guys align yourselves " is more of a new concept since computers, everyone is trying to hobble together dissimilar entities and create some type of statistic.
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