According to the school, over 80% of them still live and work in the upstate region.

Accessibility to the Upstate region is vital to building a new economy in the information age.

During the race, she spent considerable time campaigning in traditionally Republican upstate regions.

Many of these industries are concentrated in upstate regions.

It is a matter of debate which politician is delivering the most for the upstate region.

The city, he said, was always shortchanged, forced to subsidize upstate regions.

But there this time, upstate regions, facing their own garbage and development problems, vow to fight harder.

Rather than policing business executives, he will need to persuade them to invest in the depressed upstate region.

"Instead, this action will hurt New York's small businesses, seasonal workers, farmers and the entire upstate region."

The decline in the 1990's in the population ages 18 to 44 of the 52-county upstate region was "chilling," he said.