At a time when upstaters and downstaters have repeatedly clashed over issues like tuition at the State University of New York (SUNY), anti-Albany and anti-New York City sentiments are melding. ❋ Fred Siegel (2010)
Odd, but I can't remember senior Senator Schumer ever accommodating upstaters. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Why the governor felt that he needed to appease upstaters who, despite the conventional wisdom don't significantly sway statewide elections, is beyond me. ❋ Unknown (2009)
When I mention the candidate's excesses to upstaters, I've been told: "Remember that Spitzer and Paterson dramatically lowered the bar on what's considered acceptable behavior." ❋ Fred Siegel (2010)
Paladino swamped his downstate opponent Rick Lazio and won the opportunity to battle Andrew Cuomo for the right to be New York's next governor because he capitalized on the frustration and fears of upstaters who have long felt that they take a back seat to downstate interests. ❋ Jerry Kremer (2010)
There is a war between the native NYCers and the appleknockers cowhumpers upstaters with at least 200 years of history behind it, and the Ankh Morpork Big Apple team has all the good snarksters. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Right now I kind of default to Kennedy -- all of the other suggested names have substantial experience in playing to the myriad micro-constituencies that dominate the New York political infrastructure: feminist groups, labor unions, Hispanics, African Americans, Catholics, upstaters, downstaters, urbanites, suburbanites, among a host of other distinct special interest "constituencies". ❋ Unknown (2009)
All of the others have substantial experience in playing to the myriad micro-constituencies that dominate the New York political infrastructure: feminist groups, labor unions, Hispanics, African Americans, Catholics, upstaters, downstaters, urbanites, suburbanites, among a host of other distinct special interest "constituencies". ❋ Unknown (2009)
The hostility of upstaters to downstate politicians has lessened greatly but it once had real sting. ❋ Unknown (2009)
So did the infusion of nontraditional upstaters, in fact, move the middle? ❋ Unknown (2009)
One, upstaters just aren't going to be thrilled with old downstater Rudy at this point. ❋ Unknown (2009)
If New York City were an independent city-state, and it was under threat of invasion from rural upstaters who wanted to turn it into farmland, you think that nobody would rise up in defence ofit? ❋ Unknown (2009)
As a hungry young hopeful, raised in the Parkside Houses and Co-op City, Price got off to an admirable start with The Wanderers (1974), a loose-knit Bronx myth cycle, set in the early Sixties, that reads like a bunch of twice-told tales honed and crafted to wow upstaters, hillbillies, Californians, and other rubes, about life in the bad old Bronx. ❋ Chabon, Michael (2008)
Eating your Flutie Flakes may wrest GOP-leaning upstaters from Rudy. ❋ Unknown (2008)
If upstaters and financiers aren't in the market for diamonds, dollar-rich foreigners are, and the street teems with them. ❋ Unknown (2008)
To be sure, Mr. Giuliani might have self-destructed; might have scared upstaters to death; might have delayed campaigning until the conclusion of the World Series. ❋ Unknown (2006)
It's also a myth that Hillary won over "republican" upstaters. ❋ Ann Althouse (2006)
That puts him to the right of upstaters like Thomas Reynolds, who's actually a member of the leadership. ❋ Unknown (2004)
