I understand where you're coming from and my post was not so much directed at you as it was more of a general statement based on the tone of some posts. The tone i was receiving from some posts was that downstaters arent welcome upstate.
It isn't that the downstaters aren't welcome. It is a matter of how they conduct themselves. As an upstater, let me just say yes, for me, bad apples have absolutely spoiled the whole damn bunch. Sorry, that's just how it is. I have had citiots trespass, steal, drive across my lawn - my fucking lawn! - to turn their car around and then the garbage dumping.
To many upstate, anything south of wastechester or rockland is a downstater, and there are some strongly conservative rural areas in these counties. Thats where i live, and its a night and day difference from the nyc boroughs.
It does, and I agree with what youre saying and how your saying it. Even your original post didnt have the tone of closedmindedness.
No we are not. Unfortunately we live around many of those citiots. BUT upstaters should know that there are many patriots who love God, country and guns down here. Sadly we are outnumbered by either the ignorant masses and the rich liberals like the Clintons and George Soros. I think what @Celt was trying to say is we need to help each other out and work together. We are on this sub because we are all in this boat together. What unites us is our patriotism and hatred of big government that wants to take away our civil liberties. This crisis is the tip of the iceberg of what’s coming down the pike. While I understand the need for social distancing and flattening the curve, Leftists will use this and any other crisis to abuse their authority and create more problems. We can’t let them divide us. With that said- if I take my family and rent a cabin somewhere to protect them, I will be respectful of the town where I go and be a good American to the community. You won’t know I’m even there. But, I ain’t gonna let some ones fears stop me. My family comes FIRST. I’m sure most of you would do the same. And if I were on the other side, I would hope to be the guy that helps direct good men to safety for their families too. Be safe everyone. Take care.
Yes. I did. You are right on. And I appreciate your clear response. Thank you for the good advice.
The line has shifted north in my opinion. It now includes Orange county.
Orange has had a large influx of city people, specifically around middletown and newburgh, but the county is mostly right leaning. What do you consider albany? Thats upstate, but full of "citiots".
the unwashed asshole of NYS
If you can hop a train and go straight to NYC, you're within the environs and way of thinking of NYC. Which tends to skew far left and inflict itself on the rest of the state
Sounds pretty closed minded. You can catch a train in freaking plattsburgh that goes straight to nyc. Now if you mean the nyc subway thats different.not to say there arent good, 2a loving people behind enemy lines, but ido 7nderstand the difference of an upstate vs nyc mindset. I stillhave my upstate mindset evwn though i work in the city.
Last I knew, the commute train ends in Orange County, does it not? I was in Orange County in '03-04 when we were there under Noble Eagle. Orange County then was undergoing a metamorphosis because of people fleeing NYC after 9/11. It can't have gotten any better in the intervening nearly two decades
I dislike nyc and the associated mindset as much as anyone. But its a shame to see this becoming an upstate vs downstate thread. And just as you catagorize all downstaters in the same group as if they are all liberal leeches, the free states look at you in the same light. Ny state is NEVER going to separate with nyc so to the free staters, upstaters are no different than nyc leeches. Hell, if enough upstaters got off their couches we could have ousted cuomo last election.
nypost.com
Yep. Just saw this. Not surprised.
These people sure don't like outsiders coming in
On Maine island, several people with guns allegedly cut down tree to block driveway and force quarantine
On the Maine island of Vinalhaven, an armed group allegedly told individuals to quarantine Friday amid the global coronavirus pandemic and even cut down a tree to block the driveway to their property, according to the Knox County Sheriff’s Office. Around 3:35 p.m., an individual used a VHF radio...www.boston.com
It's getting squirrelly out there
I grew up just outside Syracuse and can attest to the accuracy of this statement lol.
