Having lived in northern New Jersey, working at an office within sight of barren Meadowlands fields with old 55 gallon barrels of unknown origin and contents sticking out of the ground, he sort of had a point. The State has been New York City’s dump and a cesspool of Democrat corruption since the 1930’s.
After that, they started sending their hazardous waste to communities like mine in Indiana.
The toxic waste landfill near where I lived only lasted a few years, but virtually every truck coming in there had NY or NJ plates