AHC/Plausibility Check: State of Westmoreland

Connecticut settlers in Pennsylvania's Wyoming Valley attempted to form their own state during the 1770s and the Yankee-Pennamite Wars that happened that decade, but were ultimately shot down in Congress's Trenton Decree of 1782.

For whatever reason, Westmoreland survives. Congress doesn't get around to the decree or the settlers make a lot more noise or there's even more of them, and Pennsylvania gives up and it becomes an independent state.

What would the culture be like? Like OTL? Would the Yankee nature of the area be more prominent or would it settle into something akin to western NY and not explicitly identify as Yankee? Democratic or Republican in politics?

For simplicity's sake you can consider the state's border to be above the 41st parallel north and so taking all that portion of Pennsylvania above it, although I'd not mind jiggling the line to follow the Poconos and both branches of the Susquehanna until it hits that parallel again for a natural frontier line. Major cities within it would be Scranton, Wilkes-Barre, and Erie.
 
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