The authors investigate the relationship between individual attributes and support for municipal detachment by analyzing a recent survey of Los Angeles voters. In this survey, San Fernando Valley residents were asked whether they favored detachment from Los Angeles and reorganization as a separate city. Multinomial logit regression results indicate that support for detachment is influenced by demographic characteristics, community attachment, and political ideology. However, opinions of detachment are unrelated to an individual’s economic circumstances.
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