Do you think HOA's should be able to

[hunter]

175. I'm not saying that at all.

Rather, smaller governmental agencies representing 100,000 people or less should be merged with those of the surrounding area to form single agencies representing larger populations.

Here in California many smaller cities, school districts, hospital districts, etc. were created to exclude people who were not white, or to protect especially noxious industries that poisoned the environment and abused their workers.

If you are a noxious industry it's pretty handy to own all the local officials. Same sort of thing if you are a racist who doesn't tolerate non-white neighbors.

The small city I grew up in was 99% white and kept that way by a police department that harassed people who were not white and city regulations that made life very uncomfortable for anyone who didn't have the money to keep up appearances.

It was the epitome of "white flight." Having their own small city allowed wealthier white people to isolate themselves from social problems that they themselves were largely responsible for. If they'd been forced to remain part of the greater community they'd have had incentives to face these problems themselves.

The cops in the nearby big city were known to be vicious towards certain minorities. In the town I grew up in we could pretend we were above all that because those minorities were simply excluded from the community. Incidents of extreme police misconduct in our small city were simply covered up, buried much deeper than they could be in a larger city.

In spite of all the happy propaganda we are constantly bombarded with, small town U.S.A. is largely rotten. We don't need small town school boards controlled by religious freaks, small town police departments controlled by violent racists, or small town city governments owned by noxious industries.

Anything a small city government or homeowners association can do a larger city government can do more equitably.