There's a new wave of segmentation starting up in Georgia and likely moving to other southern states where counties providing services to large unincorporated areas are still the order of the day.
In other parts of the country, New England, the upper MidWest and the Western states, unincorporated territory has virtually disappeared as the landscape has been carved up into cities, also known as municipalities. Georgia has 159 counties serving about ten million people. So, you might think that, whether they are full-service or partial-service counties, the jurisdiction should be small and compact enough to do a credible job.
But, size doesn't seem to have much to do with the level of service. The proponents of setting up new municipal jurisdictions in Georgia quite frankly admit, as you'll see in the following video, that the segmentation and re-organization is largely motivated by money, nepotism and entrenched customs. So, in a sense, it's a divide to conquer strategy, even though co-operation is called for. Co-operation, we might note, is also what Congress claims to want from the President of the USA.
One of the questioners from the audience on the video brings up the question of why a new layer of organization is proposed as the answer to people not doing their job. It's a good question for which the "professionals" don't have an answer. And the reason they don't have an answer, I would suggest, is because segmentation isn't actually about better service or self-determination. Rather, it's about defining more homogeneous communities, which are easier to control.
Control is the issue. Watch the response to the challenger and see if that's not what's up. You might also consider whether the gender and ethnic background of the presenters is entirely happenstance. One of the organizers of this event is named Rodriguez, but he wasn't invited to take a stance up front.
Although one mention got left out in the editing process, I think, Detroit was given several times as an example of where new cities are not springing up and whose bankruptcy is a consequence of "unfunded liabilities" -- i.e. pension and health care obligations to retirees.
Wonderful two-fer that. "Unfunded liabilities" is both a euphemism and a neologism. The halmark of the self-centered generation.
Warning: 50 minute video