Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe BUFFALO, N.Y., April 1 (UPI) -- Upstate New York has lost jobs for more than 25 years, but New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer caused a stir when he compared the region to "Appalachia." Some Republicans took offense at the metaphor linking upstate New York with abject poverty, the Buffalo (N.Y.) News reported Saturday. Advertisement New York City has the highest population in its history, but the population exodus from upstate New York is expected to make the state just the fourth most-populous in the nation after the 2010 census. Upstate has lost 25 percent of people between ages 20 and 34 -- and more than one-third of upstate manufacturing jobs have disappeared in the past 15 years, said the Rochester (N.Y.) Democrat and Chronicle. An ad that's been running in national magazines -- touting Toyota Motor Corp.'s $920-million manufacturing plant in Buffalo, W.Va., which employs 1,150 -- has some in Buffalo, N.Y., thinking Appalachia doesn't sound so bad, the newspaper said.
