Mr. Reactionary
blackraisin
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« on: December 26, 2014, 07:24:08 PM » |
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No. I live in Danville, we are surrounded by Pittsylvania County. Other than location, there aren't many similarities. The county is rural, white, and agricultural. The city is urban, black, and more service and manufacturing oriented (even more so before NAFTA ran off our textile mill). The city has higher taxes in exchange for trash collection, water, and buses. The county provides none of those services (except token water provision in a few of the townships. Weather affects the safety of transporting school children differently. Fireworks, hunting, and shooting guns are legal in the county, not in the city. It makes no sense to politically merge political management of rural and urban areas just because there are fewer numbers of entities
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