Right in this very subtitle (which I assume is your doing and not a summary of your article emplaced by some editor) you show the kind of narrow-minded failure to appreciate the full applicability of the term New York that my fellow residents of other parts of this vast state well beyond the reach and influence of New York City have cringed at all of our lives. A little lesson in U.S. politics and geography: a Presidential primary is held in an entire state, NOT, as this subtitle clearly implies (“The New York primary . . . the stronger representative of the city’s [emphasis added] culture”), in just its most populated urban area. Would you seriously believe that the Oklahoma primary is held only in Oklahoma City? My God, there are many polities within N.Y. State that have the legal designation as cities, even if in your sophisticated, urbane eyes they matter not a twit next to the colossal megalopolis that is NYC. And denizens of some of the most rural, isolated ares of N.Y. State — parts of which fall within the recognized boundaries of the socioeconomic region known as Appalachia — have nothing in common with the predominant lifestyles and culture of NYC.