The problem in NJ is very simple: The most conservative and productive citizens have moved out due to high taxes and stifling regulations, and they’ve been (openly) replaced with foreigners - and not necessarily the “winners” from around the world the US used to attract. NJ imports anyone who will keep the public school system filled with “clients”, because the teachers’ unions dominate politics. We have a huge government worker caste (the cause of the high taxes), and many people vote Dem because they have relatives in those gubmint jobs.
Once employers started to flee the high costs, this was inevitable; now anyone coming here is just buying into a huge IOU to those gubmint workers, and less and less current revenues (the high taxes) can be used for maintenance of the ageing infrastructure - so you pay high taxes to drive on deteriorating roads, with foliage blocking stop signs and such.
I couldn’t imagine how you reverse this process; NY has the same diseases.
“The most conservative and productive citizens. . . “
I see a nationwide trend of a new voting block of Hispanics and African Americans who live in the inner cities voting for for the same things we want: faith, family values, safe communities, and jobs. This turnaround is the result of Trump’s great outreach to these citizens, however you’d never know it if the voting process is corrupt, as it is and most definitely was, here. The Dems have a stronghold not on the voters, but on their cheating voting process. They always win this way. We have to change our process. And that is up to our legislators. If anything good comes out of this past election, maybe this will be the thing that can change the Democratic grip around the necks of the people’s freedom to impact elections going forward, thereby changing the state RED. I’m still not giving up. Remember “anything can happen in NJ”