Talk:Municipal annexation in the United States

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[edit] What's going to be the standard for including cities here?

It seems to me that just about every US city has annexed some territory since they were first chartered. Jon 22:00, 23 May 2007 (UTC)

Only a partial answer, but I'd suppose some research into some of the more unusual cases in the US - the massive historical expansion of Los Angeles, Houston, Phoenix and Chicago; or the fairly well-studied process institutionalized for cities in North Carolina (David Rusk's Cities Without Borders gives the NC cities a detailed look, and Mike Davis' City Of Quartz does the same for L.A.). Offhand, those spring to mind for various reasons - the empire-building aspects of L.A. and Chicago's historic annexations, and the very unusual annexation legal philosophy in NC... Davidals 06:01, 24 May 2007 (UTC)

There's a difference between annexing unincorporated territory and consuming other political entities. --Belg4mit 04:26, 21 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Dillon

Umm, what the heck is the point of the introduction? --Belg4mit 04:23, 21 June 2007 (UTC)