Here in NJ the Greater Depression never ended; more job losses, foreclosures, and Americans fleeing each year...
I feel for youse (couldn't help it - sorry) - I would imagine a lot of the liberal bastions are to the point where the only way to redeem them is to move enough folks out until they collapse then begin anew. The painful part is that there are a lot of good folks stuck in them that keep getting kicked in the teeth. I grew up In Rochester, NY and the suburbs south of it and left when I joined the military - trips back over the years showed a great deterioration of the inner city and the loss of a lot of pretty big businesses - with Kodak being one of the most recent of those to die the death of liberal PC stagnation.