[Source.](https://ace.mu.nu/archives/409540.php) > There is an important story out of Louisiana that may seem like a just a local story, but it could also prove to have significance as the first victory in a necessary national movement to break up old political boundaries that harbor failed municipal governments. > After a long battle spanning more than a decade, a section of East Baton Rouge Parish has successfully seceded from the Baton Rouge city/county consolidated government. The new city of St. George, Louisiana has been born. --------------------------- > There are bubbling municipal secession movements across the country, from Buckhead in Atlanta to Lost Creek in Austin as well as efforts by conservative counties to secede from blue states such as California. May the victory in Baton Rouge provide encouragement that the battle may be long, but it can be won. > Few people expect local government to be free of corruption and graft, but in exchange for an often-corrupt political machine, the expectation for local government had always been that it would effectively provide essential city services and maintain civil order. In the most recent Cut Jib Newsletter podcast, Michael Walsh, JJ Sefton, and CBD discussed the concept of “honest graft” as it applied to the Tammany Hall era of New York City. It was terribly corrupt, but it also provided policing and functioning schools, and it generally maintained civil order. > Unfortunately, Tammany-type Democrats in cities across America have been replaced by Pol Pot Democrats who seek to destroy the old order, embracing crime and lawlessness as tools in their vision of re-organizing society. Where working class residents were once the most important constituents, modern blue-city leaders have ditched the working class in favor of criminals and illegal aliens.