 Another destination was the Northeastern United States, in places such as the Monongahela Valley, Pennsylvania; Mahoning Valley, Ohio; Hudson Valley and Long Island of New York state; the Jersey Shore region and Southern New Jersey, especially in Freehold Borough; the New Haven, Connecticut area along with other Latin American nationalities; throughout Massachusetts; Washington, D.C. with Maryland and Northern Virginia included; some parts of the states of Maine, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Delaware; and the area's largest Mexican immigrant population is the Philadelphia metropolitan area with the Delaware Valley when the local economy boomed in the 1990s and 2000s, but in all US regions, the Mexican national population has begun to decline from the late 2000s recession.A lot of Mexicans and Hispanics currently reside in many places along the Delaware Valley (housing construction employment boom), such as Bridgeton, New Jersey; Camden, New Jersey; Lambertville, New Jersey; Salem, New Jersey; Trenton, New Jersey; Bensalem, Pennsylvania; Chester, Pennsylvania; Hazleton, Pennsylvania; Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania; North Penn Valley, Pennsylvania; Pocono Mountains (PA) region; Souderton, Pennsylvania; and West Chester, Pennsylvania.There has been large growth in Mexican and Latino communities in Providence, Rhode Island; Scranton, Pennsylvania; Wilmington, Delaware and Youngstown, Ohio areas.