With a city population of about 200K, there should be 15-25 districts, so the population in each district could actually know the representative, see & recognize her walking the dog, at the grocery, picking up the kinder from the brain-w, er, schools after band practice or football or baseball. In ye olden days, my grand-father’s farm had belonged to the state representative’s aunts, and his law office was just a piece up the road and to the right, in the village founded by his great-grand-father. He had fought on Guam and Guadalcanal. Fast-forward: his grave is not far from those of my parents, aunts, uncles, and today’s representatives and senators in the state legislator still refer to him with respect.

This current bunch we have waxing power-mad over Tallahassee and Leon county, over the universities & colleges & K-12 not quite so much.