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New York City: the 51st State was the platform of the Norman Mailer–Jimmy Breslin candidacy in the 1969 New York City Democratic Mayoral Primary election. Mailer a novelist journalist and filmmaker and Breslin an author and at the time a New York City newspaper columnist proposed that the five New York City boroughs should secede from New York State and become the 51st State of the U.S.
