Definition of "downstater" []

• A person from downstate; usually specifically a person from downstate New York (noun)

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• "Mr. Eddy is what they call a downstater, an assemblyman who serves an east-central Illinois district hugging the Indiana border."
• ""There's no question that being a downstater was a good thing for me.""
• "He long ago shed the moniker of "downstater" to become New York's omnipresent U.S. Senator."