"California, Texas, Florida...etc. have grown a bit more 'used to' the situation, but it is beginning to swamp us 'up here' "

Good. Perhaps you can see how weak the Notheast's response was when the damage was being done to somebody else's state. Teddy-boy Kennedy was instrumental in writing the immigration bill ('65?) and told us that the new wave of immigrants would not lower the quality of life for the current citizens. He had nothing to fear, with an extended family fortune of billions and two thousand miles of land between his home and the Lower Rio Grande Valley.