What is unincorporated land?
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Consuela, are you in Oregon?
What is unincorporated land?
Land that's not part of any town.
Land that doesn't count as part of a town. Virginia is organized into cities (8 of them) and counties, because there are parts of every county that just isn't part of a town, so it needs a county to govern it.
Whereas, every square inch of Massachusetts is a town, even though many parts of it are still woods.
When I imagine each state as like a separate country I can begin to imagine.
When I imagine each state as like a separate country I can begin to imagine.
See, I had to do the reverse with Europe. I used to mentally picture all of the world's countries as being America-sized. When I finally got to Europe and realized that one could drive for 1 day and pass through 3 separate nations, I think I sprained something in my head. So now I just imagine Europe as a bunch of states--okay, states that have different languages, goverments, histories currencies...well, not so much the currencies anymore...
Hayden thanks for info. Will look up Goodwyn. I don't have much specific stuff on the civil rights movement or minority politics.
Also recommended:
The Children - David Halberstam
Carry Me Home - Diane McWhorter
Civilities & Civil Rights - William Chafe
Remembering Jim Crow - William Chafe, Raymond Gavins, and Robert Korstad (or any oral history)
Schoolhouse Door - Culpepper Clark
Personal Politics - Sara Evans
But if there is no town-- who plows the roads? And has the fire department?
very confusing!
That's done by the county, because there is no town.
I find it really irritating, in Virginia, e.g., because the restaurant tax varies from one county to another. So you're in Arlington Cty, and you get coffee from Starbucks, and it's $1.50 + 10% tax; but the same cup of coffee in Alexandria is $1.50 + 5% tax. Of course, all the good restaurants are in Arlington.
Whereas in Massachusetts every town has a budget and a government, although we still do county courthouses (and I think sheriffs? Maybe that's only Connecticut).
(deleted because I was nitpicking something I misread in the first place)