Abstract
In discussing trends in rural local government in the South attention is of necessity focused primarily on county or parish government.' This is true because the county is the principal and in many cases the only unit of local government which serves the rural population. The South does not have the town which is the dominant unit of local government in the New England states, nor the township which is so prevalent in the Midwest. The South has numerous small incorporated towns and villages but they do not contain rural territory as is usually the case in the New England town.2 Rural local government in the South has been characterized as follows:
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