Ferguson was on the same slow path to irrelevance, and this just moved it ahead five spaces. Glad you were OK; while New Jerseyans may be liberal on many topics, on two they are not: taxes and race. My area is filled with people who escaped from Newark when it fell, as well as their descendants; the only reason to go into Newark (besides working there) is to buy drugs and prostitutes.
The only hope for these areas are the masses of Hispanics displacing the blacks.
Don't forget the airport...
I think you're right about how New Jerseyans feel about race, but not taxes. The state wouldn't be tied for #1 in taxes (with Connecticut) if voters weren't liberal about taxes. The property taxes in a safe suburban town in an area far from the problems of Newark, Camden or Trenton are still completely outrageous.
I believe that the whole dark blue northeast is eventually doomed. Rome wasn't burned in a day, and I don't expect to see the final collapse in my lifetime, but eventually all the makers will have left, leaving only the takers.
We need the Border Patrol up there to put down this riot since they no longer have anything to do by way of EO.......