The city of Bonnieville, Kentucky officially ceased to exist on Sunday, the result of the consent of its governed revoked by a 67 to 60 margin last month, the polity breaking up with each other and turning over its assets to Hart county, the sense of community and belonging fluttered into the aether like particulate motes of ash drifting off a Virginia Slim, the Louisville Courier-Journal reports.

Maybe there could be a movement to encourage states to disband similarly. Like if there were a campaign to get, say, Missouri and Alabama to pass referenda to dissolve and become unincorporated territories of the United States directly administered by the federal government wouldn’t that be kind of a win-win? The people would pay considerably less in taxes and the rest of us wouldn’t have to deal with stupid hicks like Tommy Tuberville in Congress. Plus, much like the people of Bonneville nothing about their mailing address changes. It still says “Bonnieville, KY” on their Medicaid ID cards, just like it would still say “Missouri sector” and “Alabama sector” on their unincorporated residential-homesteader permits issued by the US Department of the Interior.

And the Missourians and Alabamans who still want to participate in democracy will be allowed to set up their own systems to elect their own citizen representatives to send to Congress to lobby real states’ lawmakers on Department of the Interior policy changes like improved hiring standards for the Blackwater mercenaries that replaced their sheriff’s departments and politely asking the US Marines to limit their use of what’s left of the former state capitols for artillery training exercises.