California has the same problem. New Yorkers discovered the weather out here too and came not to retire, but to use our university system to get an education, get into politics, and then ruin the state with their New York socialism.
US Senator Barbara Boxer, former Governor Gray Davis are but honorable mentions in a long line of Big Apple lefties rotting California.
The infamous Mario Savio of the "Free Speech Movement" , that began the "Sixties" at UC Cal at Berkeley, was from New York.
Geez, you not only have to worry about invaders from the South, but the East as well!