Ted Cruz you make me so sad. What were you thinking insulting an entire city of people?

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I wish I could edit the caption. I mean that Ted Cruz insults an entire city of people.

New York City is a city. New York is a state with a population of 20 million.

"New York" is the name of both the city and the state.

"New York City" is just a colloquialism.

There are various ways to distinguish the two. Without designating NYC by referencing the city itself, one can assume the topic is the entire state. Do you think Cruz only meant the Big Apple?

 

[theDoctorisIn]

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I wish I could edit the caption. I mean that Ted Cruz insults an entire city of people.

New York City is a city. New York is a state with a population of 20 million.

"New York" is the name of both the city and the state.

"New York City" is just a colloquialism.

There are various ways to distinguish the two. Without designating NYC by referencing the city itself, one can assume the topic is the entire state. Do you think Cruz only meant the Big Apple?

Yes, that's pretty much exactly what he meant.

It's dog-whistle politics. Cruz's target audience will conjure up images of elitist Manhattan liberals and Brooklyn ghettos when they hear "New York" - not upstate farmers with midwestern accents.