The Birth of the American City-state

[Josquius]

This is why American style lax Urban planning regulations are bad. You see similar donutting (albeit for different reasons) in japan and it really wrecks the livability of some obstentially decent sized cities
Busineses shouldn't be able to just up and move to a greenfield site.

On the other hand our people have someplace to live unlike British Urban planning regulations.

I never said the British system was best.

[Valmy]

I never said the British system was best.

What is the best system I wonder?

[Eddie Teach]

The rad states

We are pretty rad, aside from voting records.

[Savonarola]

The rad states

We are pretty rad, aside from voting records.

Florida isn't rad, it's popeil.

[Admiral Yi]

Engineering humor? 

[Savonarola]

Engineering humor? 

No, Ron was the best I could come up with as a substitute for purple.   

[Eddie Teach]

I was including Georgia as well.

Besides, north Florida is pretty red.

[Savonarola]

I was including Georgia as well.

Ah, that's definitely a rad state.   

[Ed Anger]

Engineering humor? 

No, Ron was the best I could come up with as a substitute for purple.   

Set it and forget it.

[Agelastus]

And Congressional representation if he really wanted to go full DC

What, not even a delegate and the Electoral College votes?

[But yes, I had mixed up the Electoral College votes with seats in the House of Representatives. ]

[The Minsky Moment]

Somehow I doubt the PRC is the model here.

I'm not so sure. It seems like the hard-core conservatives in the US are pretty comfortable with an autocratic elite ruling the country and providing a business environment where business  regulations and governance don't apply to those with the right political connections.

Depends what you mean by conservative.
But either way, Siege's guy appears to be motivated by the desire to reduce the political influence and power of the cities, whereas in the PRC the cities are powerful and the countryside villages weak and subject to elite predation.

[The Minsky Moment]

God, that sounds wonderful.

Sorry, no Frenchified Normandy chateau owners allowed. 

[MadImmortalMan]

Thailand has a pretty sharp city/rural political split too.

Personally, I do think the answer is decentralization so that laws can be made to match the local conditions, but making new states via some sort of ideological ghettoization isn't the same thing.

[Valmy]

Personally, I do think the answer is decentralization so that laws can be made to match the local conditions, but making new states via some sort of ideological ghettoization isn't the same thing.

Don't we already have this?  I guess we could have County Legislatures as well.  That would be getting a little ridiculous.

[MadImmortalMan]

Don't we already have this?  I guess we could have County Legislatures as well.  That would be getting a little ridiculous.

We do, and I think our way is fundamentally sound for the most part. There are a couple states that have very large cities that basically wag the dog though.