Buckhead District of Atlanta looks to secede from Atlanta

Predominately white district ("Richest Atlanta District Inches Closer to Seceding From City," Bloomberg).  A kind of edge city, but within the city, not on the outskirts of the metropolitan area.  It's competitive with Downtown for commercial property location and development. It accounts for 38% of the city's tax revenue.  So its leaving would cripple the city economically.

Definitely counter to my call for cities and counties to merge, to create bigger, more viable polities.

It's being pushed by the State Legislature, especially the Senate.  The House may oppose, but unlikely.  The city would be forced to divvy up civic assets at a price favoring Buckhead.

It seems pretty ugly.