[Law is not justice but process]

"Durham used to have an actual economy in tobacco"

When I moved to Durham in 1987 there were 12 tobacco companies of various sizes in town. When I left in 1998, there was one, and it was in bankruptcy (Ligget Meyers, I believe).

"Now Duke is the only game in town."

There are the Research Triangle Park and many other industries in the area, but Duke is BY FAR the largest employer and taxpayer in the City limits. You would think the Durhamites would appreciate them a little more: Duke pays their bills.

[Locomotive Breath]

I remember sitting in classrooms on East Campus and if the wind was in the right directon you could smell the curing tobacco drifting over from Ligget. All gone now.

As an educational institution, Duke pays no tax which I'm sure is a sore spot. Most of the native Durhamites are not, shall we say, qualified for those jobs at RTP. The people that are are largely transplants and they rarely move to Durham. The left behinds know they are and don't know what to do about it.