Advocates from a number of groups pushing to have upstate New York legally declared a separate state are slated to hold a rally on Sunday in hopes of building even more support.

USA Today reports supporters of issues ranging from gun rights to hydraulic fracturing are slated to come together behind the common cause during a daylong demonstration.

The newspaper ads at the center of the current movement are mounting frustrations with Gov. Andrew Cuomo over his support of the New York Secure Ammunition and Firearms Enforcement Act of 2013, and his recent decision to direct state regulators to ban fracking for natural gas.

"Why secession? Secession is about reclaiming the economic opportunities upstate has lost and restoring the liberties Upstate residents once enjoyed," the gun group, Shooters Committee on Public Education, said in a statement. "Downstate has dominated upstate for decades, and upstate has no future in a state controlled by New York City's needs and desires."

The rally will be held in nearby Bainbridge, New York, a village with a population of less than 1,500 residents located approximately 25 miles north of the Pennsylvania border. The area is also renowned for its vast natural gas reserves.

All the secession rhetoric isn't exactly new in upstate parts and twice since 2009 Republican state Sen. Joseph Robach of Greece, New York, introduced bills that would allow counties to have a referendum on the idea. Neither of those bills ever made it out of committee.

This time around supporters are pushing a two-prong choice of options that would either require lawmakers from both New York and Pennsylvania to approve the plan or the creation of a smaller New York state government with two autonomous regions. The upstate area would be known as New Amsterdam, while the downstate area would retain the name New York.

The groups organizing Sunday's event include Americans for Restoring the Constitution, Deposit Gas Group, Divide New York State Caucus, FundamentalHumanRights.org, Landowner Advocates of New York, New Yorkers United for Kids, NY2A, Oath Keepers, Red Dragon, Sapbush Road Group, Shooters Committee on Public Education, Tri-County Tea Party, Upstate New York Towns Association and We the People of New York.

In 1777, the state of Vermont seceded from New York, but for the Last 238 years things have remained intact.