NYC had draft riots, but you don’t understand how big of a population center it was at the time. NYS was a breadbasket state and industrial powerhouse, and the main port of entry. All those immigrants getting recruited off the boat for guaranteed income would’ve gone into NY units. So not only is one of (if not the largest) states by population Recruiting from within but also responsible for grabbing up new American immigrants as well.

And the draft riots were the exception, not the norm. Basically every town in the state has a canon from the war at its memorial with lists of all the men that never came back, and the canon is rightly pointed south.