That's true.However,it hasn't *always* been true.When I was growing up the state was a respectable one populated largely by decent people.There's a long explanation as to why we are what we are today but the short version is "immigration"...meaning people coming here from other parts of the country...and world.In recent years we,like certain other states,have become a magnet for the riff raff of America and the world.
As a 65 year-old native here I disagree as to the cause. It is the white (mostly Catholics) residents that are behind the modern moral liberalism and social welfare attractions that induce immigrants from poor and chaotic countries to come here as well as corrupt them.
College-educated liberals are the one who have largely destroyed the black family and culture, seducing them with the demonic victim-entitlement mentality and its "share the wealth/occupy moment," and its incessant cries of victimization and demand for what others earned as being justice (thus rejecting the concept of mercy and grace), and thereby turning many of their churches into PACs or social gospel groups or health and wealth seminars.
And these liberals work to do the same to Latinos - besides having already much Americanized PRs - beginning (as usual) in universities (such institutions are needed but have largely become liberal secular seminaries), telling them how discriminated they are and enticing them to feel envy, and presenting liberals as saviors of the oppressed.
Yet being much more religious and conservative in moral values, Central and South Americans are contrary to these liberals in that regard, and could have been good ground for Republicans if they cared to try to educate them of the fallacy of the Democrats. But in any case the value of benefits at the expense of others usually trumps faith and family values, as it does in the American black culture. The end of which is not good.
Only the evangelical gospel can ultimately rescue the area, but that only exists among a remnant.