City-County Consolidations Are Efforts to Provide a Regional Government

City-county consolidations are efforts to provide a regional government,

A) but the primary functions of local government-public safety, public works, and health and human services-are generally kept separated along county and city lines.
B) where area jurisdictions are merged into a single countywide government.
C) and counties and cities within their boundaries generally get to create the rules of the game.
D) and they were increasingly popular at the polls in the 1960s and 1970s, when twenty-three such governments were created.