TIL at one time, the city of New York tried to secede from the United States.

Understandably so.

New yexit

This is one of those, "How can I support either of these groups?" situations.

On the surface, it is NYC being tolerant to other cultures and loving to drink and party versus upstate Puritans who want a single culture and no drinking or partying. But then you read more and it is NYC being pro-slavery because it makes them money, while the Puritans were anti-slavery because it was against their God.

The United States of America!*

(Except for the over 200 years of attempted secession.)

Mamdani has the chance to do something funny

The history of New York is crazy. many neighborhoods within the borroughs used to be separate cities or colonies or whatever

Time to consider it again.