About 40% of the St Louis police chief's salary comes from a consortium of rich business owners rather than the city. Extensive networks of private streets in a few neighborhoods are pretty common there, with the gated communities there.wrangling as much financial autonomy as they can.
2: right! that's where the video of the gun-wielding white people came from after Ferguson, right? One of those enclaves
Falls Church, Virginia kind of did this, in 1948 - they formed a city, effectively seceding from the surrounding Fairfax County government and school district (in Virginia "independent cities" are at the same level as counties, not underneath them). It was absolutely for racist reasons.
There's a suburban area within the city limits here that has a secession movement. It's very dumb because that area absolutely cannot support itself on its own tax revenue, which it would have to do for the state to approve the secession.
Not official yet but looks promising.
Don't count your mayor before they hatch.
One in your hand is worth two in your bush.
10: Anchorage isn't the bush, though.
Incorporation folklore from the little burg of Albany, California: "In 1908, a group of local women protested the dumping of Berkeley garbage in their community. Armed with two shotguns and a twenty-two-caliber rifle, they confronted the drivers of the wagons near what is now the corner of San Pablo Avenue and Buchanan Street. The women told the drivers of the horse-drawn garbage wagons to go home, which they did quickly and without complaint. Shortly thereafter, the residents of the town voted to incorporate."
The next chapter was of course racist housing policy.
That's not very much guns for doing a racism these days.
As rugged frontierswomen, they knew to make every shot tell.
I clearly remember when I was driving around Baton Rouge some years back -- I had come back to take care of a few things from my mom's estate -- and thinking how easy it would be to make the city just a lovely place. And then I thought, no, it's the way it is because that's how the people with the money and the power want it to be.
The idea of little bits of cities seceding voluntarily and unilaterally seems very mediaeval from this point of view - in fact IIRC it happened a lot back in the LME. due like everything else to the RISE OF THE MIDDLE CLASSES, but it was more likely to be cities seceding from their feudal counties and setting up as free cities run by burghers. It's never been even a vague suggestion in modern UK politics to my knowledge - thinking about it, that's maybe because so much local government funding comes from central government anyway, and is largely need-based rather than capitation-based. If Kensington & Chelsea decides to split off from London, there won't be much of a change in the financial situation.
Also we don't have nearly as much segregation by class or race in London. You're never more than half a mile away from the povvos, so very difficult to draw a secession boundary that doesn't include them. Look at this map https://trustforlondon.org.uk/data/poverty-across-london/ The big round beige blob just south of the word Camden is the Regent's Park and just north of that blob is Primrose Hill, where the houses start at about £3 million. Now go a bit south-west and you're into dark blue 40% poverty rates in Lisson Grove. Even a US gerrymanderer is going to have issues with that.
I know there have been rumblings of Staten Island seceding from NYC on and off for a long time. Apparently sometime in the 90s 60+% voted to do so in a non -binding referendum.
17 I'd be fine with that. In fact give it to New Jersey.
Apparently secession is a whole subfield of political philosophy. One of my postgrad cohorts with grit and discipline was going to write on it.
Huh. They're at Pitt now. No sign of secession studies though.
There's lots of philosophy people at Pitt.
Tell me aboutt itt.
ROLL UP THAT CHAP. HE WILL NOT BE WANTED THESE TEN YEARS.