11 maps of upstate New York that will make you mad

ALBANY — New Yorkers love to argue about where upstate and downstate begin and end.

That point was reinforced yet again by the response to a New York Times Magazine interview of Democratic gubernatorial hopeful Cynthia Nixon, who said — jokingly, her campaign says — that upstate begins around Ithaca.

The social-media chatter confirmed what a 2016 public opinion poll found: Hardly anyone agrees where upstate begins.

More: Cynthia Nixon, Andrew Cuomo weigh in on where upstate NY begins

Here are 11 maps of the upstate/downstate divide submitted by readers and Twitter users, highlighting some — ahem — unique perspectives on the hotly debated, unanswerable issue:

1) The Pennsylvania Border Extended

2) The True North

3) The Spheres of Influence

4) The Color-Coded Circles

5) The Joke Map (We Hope)

6) The Westchester/Rockland Line

7) The Vertical Troll

8) The Westchester Divided

9) The MTA Theory

10) The Subcategory Approach

11) The County-By-County Approach