Posted on 11/07/2018 8:27:47 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Now she knows how I feel about her.
In the 19th Century, many states configured counties so that a resident could get from their home to the Court House and return home in one day. Most states have been reluctant to reduce the number of existing counties, even though the Court House is only 20 miles away. By the old rule of thumb, Kansas would need about 4 counties. Many counties have a half empty Court House, a handful of employees in the County Clerk’s office and very little going on except on Court Days. In those places, they close for lunch and lock up the Court House while everyone go to lunch together.
WV has 55 counties. That’s way too many for the population. My dad many years ago was on a state commission to write a state constitutional amendment to allow the reduction of that number. I know longer remember the methods that were proposed. I also can’t remember if the amendment was written and came to a vote. I do remember there was a huge outcry over it. A lot of local rice bowls would have been broken if it had been implemented. Rice bowls involving political patronage, sleazy contracting, etc. I remember one of the jokes back then was some counties are so depopulated that if it wasn’t for the local corruption there would be no economy/jobs at all!
Apparently not. Makes me wonder if Ann has a drinking problem actually.
That’s ridiculous. Funding 105 counties takes a lot of taxpayer money.
Rush has been talking about how the large urban areas are islands of blue in seas of red. I think the solution is to go back to having city states. Let the big cities be on their own and the rest of us will go our own way.
See the book, The Sovereign Individual by Davidson and Rees-Mogg. They predict the large nation states will fall apart and new (often old) forms of government will come about. It won’t be a pretty divorce, though.
Very late to this thread, but it’s not the “conservative farmer types who become whores when they have the chance to hire cheap Mexican labor”.
This map shows the break down for the governorship. Like most places across the country, the rural people voted conservative, the cities voted liberal.
https://www.politico.com/election-results/2018/kansas/
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