I can't get to either Albany or NYC without going through Trump country. Thank God Dutchess barely went for Clinton, or I could not even get to Kingston for department store shopping, and would be trapped in Columbia County. Columbia County has no department stores except the sad case of Kohls. BRTD would have a nervous breakdown if he went across the river into Greene County, which is still festooned everywhere with Trump signs. They love their President almost as much as their guns.
Dan and I play this game as we drive through the various little townships (NY calls them towns), guessing how they voted. We have gotten pretty good at picking up the vibe. That is what happens when politics has turned mostly cultural. Towns steeped in history with tight zoning, and many historic houses, are Clinton country. Tracts with rather tasteless McMansions are all Trump, like in some areas east of Poughkeepsie (county seat of Dutchess) at the edge of the NYC metro zone at the end of the metro line.
You could theoretically get to NYC by going through Springfield and Hartford, but that would be pretty ridiculous.
