Clearly folks, you can see how some of us easterners get an undeserved, bad rap.
If you look at New York state on the map, on the far west, right on Lake Erie, you will see a county on the tip of the lake that is not yet filled in...that is Erie County...it will be blue, because Buffalo is located there.
If the map were broken down further, there would only be a blue blotch on the tip of the lake...the rest of the county would be red (from the suburbs out).
Directly below Erie County is Cattaraugus Co., my home county...never has, never will be...blue!
Folks in most rural counties are more like midwesterners than what many folks picture as a "typical New Yorkers"
Those blue spots are a different breed of cat!