Upstate New York is generally Republican outside of its biggest urban areas, ... New York secession efforts have been primarily linked to Republican lawmakers in recent decades, ...

On Sunday, a few hundred people rallied in Bainbridge, New York, a village of 3,300 between Binghamton and Oneonta, to promote the idea of upstate secession.The protest was organized by a group ...

Secession has worked before, but it's been a long time: Vermont split from New York in 1777, eventually becoming a U.S. state in 1791; Maine split from Massachusetts in 1820 after residents ...

Should Upstate New York be its own state? Several secession groups plan to debate that question this weekend in the Southern Tier. The Times-Union reports Americans for Restoring the Constitution ...

“Upstate New York is crumbling, our best and our brightest are leaving this state, and so many of the ones who are left here are on social services.” Price is upfront about the road to ...

Secession of New York City was Norman Mailer's idea when he ran for mayor of the Big Apple in 1969. Secession of Long Island was an idea lampooned by Comedy Central 's "The Daily Show" in 2009. In ...

According to a statement by the Upstate New York Towns Association, Finch’s initial remark about secession was in response to the state’s ban on hydraulic fracturing or fracking, the ...

An upcoming rally to discuss Upstate New York possibly seceding from New York won't include a proposal to form its own state, a representative of one secession group says. John Bergener Jr ...

Besides the political difficulty of upstate secession – it would require sign-off by both the New York Legislature and U.S. Congress – detractors cite that affluent New York City residents ...

New York’s upstate secession movement is not going away anytime soon. There have been bills introduced in the state Legislature, and upstate business interests periodically fan the flames of this ...

ALBANY — A growing chorus of upstaters is calling for secession from New York because residents are furious about economic hardships they say have been brought on by lawmakers who ...

ALBANY – Nearly 250 years ago, a movement to secede from the State of New York was successful. During the midst of the Revolutionary War, when 13 colonies were fighting for independence from ...