Reply #41: You're right. Sophistication wasn't a good word choice. I was trying to refer to a larger

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context that includes qualities that are not found in Texas. Whether that context is a retired RAF field or a small country town it's not Texas.

I get your point that hardcore fans go for the race and nothing else, true, but there are questions about the size and timing of that benefit and then also none of that addresses my point that precisely what kind of economic benefit, especially to education, is experienced and when it is experienced should be intrinsic to this question from the lower SES tax-payers' perspective.