I gathered that about Springfield, from seeing both Worcester and Hartford, which look like third world countries.
I used to really dig tooling through all of 'em. Now it's heartbreak and anger.
People think of immigration as only being a problem if it's from Mexico and only in the last 15 years. You and I both know that in New England, the cancer has been growing since the '60s. Colombians in Central Falls. Cape Verdeans in Fall River/New Bedford. Brazilians in Framingham. Ecuadorians in Milford. SE Asians in Lowell/Lawrence. Hondurans in Brockton. Puerto Ricans (so-called US citizens) everywhere. Hartford and Springfield are in essence colonies of Puerto Rico.