So maybe secession is in order?

Fanny Kemble

“Those New England states, I do believe, will be the noblest country in the world in a little while. They will be the salvation of that very great body with a very little soul, the rest of the United States; they are the pith and the marrow, heart and core, head and spirit of that country.’’

— From British actress Fanny Kemble’s A Year of Consolation (1847)

Boston, from “The Eagle and the Wild Goose See It,’’ an 1860 photograph by James Wallace Black, was the first recorded aerial photograph.