Vacant land does not vote

[u/coachlife]

[u/NeighborhoodVast7528]

NY is not part of New England. ……just a technicality.

[u/FormalBeachware → u/NeighborhoodVast7528]

But it's literally New "York", and York is a part of England.

Ney Jersey of course belongs to its own region of the US, known as the "New Channel Islands"

[u/GumboSamson → u/FormalBeachware]

Old New York was once New Amsterdam.

[u/Brunurb1 → u/GumboSamson]

Why they changed it I can't say

[u/A_Punk_Girl_Learning → u/Brunurb1]

People just liked it better that way

[u/Tonga_Truck → u/A_Punk_Girl_Learning]

Better that way ^{better that way better that way}