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To: HairBall who wrote (45510)	6/10/1998 7:06:00 PM
From: Patrick Slevin	Respond to of 58727

See, that's where the lie is. Jersey is more suburban than most people let on. Up around where your wife is from, there is (or was) some pharmaceutical joints.....the Ciba-Geigys and (not far) the Sandoz and Hoffman-LaRoche plants. But manufacturing is no more present here anymore than it is in towns of former industrial might like Syracuse, areas in North Mass., Eastern Pennsy and a dozen more. Jersey has thrived as a suburban community because of it's proximity to NYC. Also, further south is an intellectual group of people...such as teachers at Princeton like Joyce Carol Oates. It no longer needs Industrial activity and is instead the home of many Corporate Headquarters, such as ATT...or research such as Bell Labs. I imagine it's a relic of the past to think of Jersey as an industrial power....but there are no more industrial powers in the states. There are areas that make computers or high tech weapons or whatever you like......but no one eats steel in many places any longer. It's a different world. Fortunately, some of the old industrial towns have been successful at adaptation. Jersey (as a state) has. Many other places have not as yet. The old pictures of society do not necessarily apply any longer. I'm late for my game, seeya.