Republik van Nieuw Nederland
This is a rather different direction than the rest of Upstate 2050, but a friend sent me a link discussing an alternate version of New York State, explained here in more detail. The boundaries are very different, but make sense in their own way, and the development trajectory seems to have been very different.
The different boundaries and smaller country make me think that the "Upstate-Downstate" relationship there would be completely different.
I wonder what that might look like in 2050?
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