<b>IN’s Cooper:</b> Goodbye, Empire State
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People are leaving New York in droves (and Chevy Impalas). Why is this?
Reflecting its declining population as documented in the 2010 census, New York soon will lose two House seats, and tie with Florida as the nation's third-most-populous state. Poor New York.
As a geography-obsessed kid in the '50s and '60s, I remember when California overtook New York in the populat
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