ALBANY — New Yorkers love to argue about where upstate and downstate begin and end.
That point was reinforced yet again by the response to a New York Times Magazine interview of Democratic gubernatorial hopeful Cynthia Nixon, who said — jokingly, her campaign says — that upstate begins around Ithaca.
The social-media chatter confirmed what a 2016 public opinion poll found: Hardly anyone agrees where upstate begins.
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Here are 11 maps of the upstate/downstate divide submitted by readers and Twitter users, highlighting some — ahem — unique perspectives on the hotly debated, unanswerable issue:
1) The Pennsylvania Border Extended
