I’m like 45 minutes from the city

Melbourne *

Is it a suburb or just aways away?

Suburb but borders a bunch of farms and shit

As I said, semi rural

I think I read you.

Just outside the edge of where the town is really developed. Close enough you are essentially part of the city, but it's mostly going to be stuff like warehouses.

Yeah that’s the one

Literally borders rural hahaha

Yeah, I'm in a really urban center where if you drive for just 5 minutes it's farms for hours.

But it's still effectively really linked to NYC so you see it all.

Both rural Upstate and urban Downstate.

It's literally Hillary versus Trump to be honest.

Oh you’re in NY

Hillary is corrupt and measured. Trump is Loud and Angry.

Basically, close to PA.

Hahahaha trump is a meme

Yeah, he's more a symbol than anything.

Absolutely

He was a middle finger to the world

Pretty much. He's the middle finger Upstate has wanted to send downstate for decades.

And political correctness

Lol

The whole "flyover country" meme is a real effect. And the people in Upstate meet people in NYC and know it.

The republicans need to capitalise on ocasio Cortez

I'm sure they're looking into it.

The last election they pinned up the Californian delegation as too extreme.

If NY goes red

It won't. Unless you mean communist.

It’ll never happen but if it does the democrats are fucked

Either way tbh

The Republicans probably took MI because Detroit shrank.

ThAnks obama

Detroit is fun. They didn't like dealing with the laws they would toss on the rural parts of the state, so MI law has all sorts of exemptions for cities "over 1 million residents." Detroit is now about 750k.

And the rest of MI is very red.

Jesus Christ

that's nuts man

Yeah, NY does similar stuff.

Though they do tend to pass exemptions as a nod to help the rural parts

Like they delayed the minimum wage increase in upstate.

It seems like a lot of the country is red... and the major cities are blue