Durham could only hope to be San Francisco. It's more like Oakland on a bad hair day.
Durham is not really like Oakland, either. It's not a predominantly black city. Many of the blacks in Durham are well off, as it was a center of black entrepreneurism long before the Great Society sidelined this approach to advancement. It has been the headquarters of a black-owned insurance company since early in the last century, IIRC. Over time, it has drawn many liberal graduates of Duke to stay on and, in the process, change the political landscape of Durham. If you want to compare it to anything in California, it's more like a mix of the worst of Berkeley and Oakland, with a significant share of decent, God-fearing, patriotic Southern conservative working class people thrown into the mix, joined by illegal Hispanics, who are still a relatively small share of the population.
***It's more like Oakland on a bad hair day.***
LOL.
A REAL bad hair day.