Here's an article bemoaning the decline of the NorthEast
(counting NY) in the American scheme of things. The author's probably
morose because he flew in from Tucson, AZ to watch a Red Sox-Yankees game.
Weather shock, probably. Anyway, another guy responds to his
rants and points out that the Northeast might not have political
prowess anymore but it is essentially bankrolling the south (with some
help from the west). Kind of the (politically) powerful North vs the rich
South thing happening in India.