Lacking appeal downstate is code for "white people won't vote for him.". From Wordnik.com. [The National Ledger - News] Reference
But the gap between upstate and downstate is not just economic. From Wordnik.com. [Jerry Kremer: The Never-Ending New York Battle: Upstate vs. Downstate] Reference
My aunt's father owned a Nash dealership in downstate Illinois. From Wordnik.com. [Gale Walden: The Poetry of the American Car] Reference
People in downstate are totally disgusted withChicago politics. From Wordnik.com. [Republican congressman announces bid for Obama's Senate seat] Reference
He’s on WGN live right now and is counting on a strong showing in downstate districts still reporting. From Wordnik.com. [Illinois/FL-19 primary results. | RedState] Reference
Phil Coniglione, owner of Scoopy Doo since 2004, said his brother owns a business with the same name downstate with 450 accounts. From Wordnik.com. [timesunion.com: Local Breaking News] Reference
Mid-60s in downstate Illinois. From Wordnik.com. [HUFFPOST HILL - NOVEMBER 1ST, 2010] Reference
For a "downstate" school to win was considered impossible. From Wordnik.com. [Alec Baldwin: Remembering My Father] Reference
You hit the nail on the head regarding the "downstate" support. From Wordnik.com. [This just in... Giannoulias to announce Sunday] Reference
Perhaps in political shorthand "downstate" once meant Southern, obviously. From Wordnik.com. [This just in... Giannoulias to announce Sunday] Reference
How come when people from chicago say springfield is "downstate" you scream, but you accept Galesburg as being downstate?. From Wordnik.com. [This just in... Giannoulias to announce Sunday] Reference
And rather than come up with new ideas, they just yell "downstate" as loud as they can and hope that it works. From Wordnik.com. [the albany project - Front Page] Reference
Some residents here think the swine flu is a big-city plague, a Mexico City thing, in a kind of downstate Illinois vs. Chicago situation. From Wordnik.com. [The Daily Journal Local News] Reference
I had just come up from school at downstate Illinois. From Wordnik.com. [Longing of the Broken-Hearted] Reference
So upstate, downstate, they all end up in pinstripes as governors. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 10, 2008] Reference
Of course, Illinois has a historic divide between upstate and downstate. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 6, 2008] Reference
Then, on a summer afternoon downstate in Alton, Illinois, a bank robbery. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 5, 2009] Reference
Certainly in the downstate area, New York City, he's running very strong. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript - Special Event: Election 2000: George W. Bush Makes Clean Sweep Over John McCain Tuesday's Important GOP Primaries - March 1, 2000] Reference
PALAST: And so is downstate Governor Dan Walker of Illinois was convicted. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 10, 2008] Reference
Refugees were being relocated to downstate cities in Illinois and Indiana. From Wordnik.com. [Two in Time]
He played poker with a number of legislators from downstate Illinois after hours. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Feb 10, 2007] Reference
There ` s an upstate Syracuse organization and downstate Long Island organization. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 12, 2009] Reference
I went back downstate toUrbanaand began counting the days until her period was expected. From Wordnik.com. [Lynda, The First] Reference
I mean, everybody goes upstate in New York, but you can go downstate in New Jersey as well. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 13, 2006] Reference
When you go to the general population downstate Illinois, you took lives from innocent children. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 12, 2003] Reference
Bluestone also lost its highest achiever, a pretty and popular girl whose family came originally from "downstate.". From Wordnik.com. [Leaps Of Faith] Reference
So far, I haven't found any similar food-for-gas programs at my local supermarkets back home in downstate New York. From Wordnik.com. [In praise of food that gives you gas] Reference
Alex Schmit, 12, and her two friends traveled downstate from Monroe, N.Y. "My dad doesn't even know about this," said Alex. From Wordnik.com. [Book Fans Welcome] Reference
Brady, a little-known and very conservative downstate senator, will try to steal the governor's office from Quinn in November. From Wordnik.com. [Bill Brady Leads Pat Quinn By 13 Points In Latest Poll Of Illinois Governor's Race] Reference
Then on my birthday in August, making a run downstate to Urbana to see JAM, when she gave me the brandy snifter. From Wordnik.com. [Pharaoh ... Pharaoh] Reference
People downstate thought “suicide”; everyone upstate knew it was a fluke motorcycle accident, word spelled in Texas with an “x.”. From Wordnik.com. [Hoss Men (divided)] Reference
The epicenter of the Old Dominion's hard-right social conservatism has moved to the Washington suburbs of Northern Virginia from downstate. From Wordnik.com. [Northern Virginia: New center of the hard right] Reference
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