Article without paywall: https://archive.is/2025.09.08-113402/https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/09/08/mississippi-republican-states-police-cities/
Other red states have made similar moves in blue cities even as crime in those cities has decreased sharply from pandemic-era highs. And now President Donald Trump is borrowing from the playbook, sending federal agents and National Guard troops to patrol the nation’s capital and threatening to do the same elsewhere.
“It’s part of the narrative that these cities are incapable of administering public safety even though crime is on a downswing since the pandemic,” said Jorge Camacho, an associate research scholar in law at Yale Law School. “You still need a foil to blame for problems that are real and imagined. I expect to see that wielded for the foreseeable future.”
Yeah, that’s how a lot of “blue” states are. As anyone who’s been to Bakersfield or Fresno could tell you.
And conversely, large cities are mostly cosmopolitan and filled with liberals and progressives, even in “red” states.
That’s the big problem with the idea that we could just split the country up along state lines and wash our hands of each other in some sort of amicable divorce.