The Politics of City-County Merger: The Lexington-Fayette County ExperienceAlthough city county consolidation has been urged for years as a solution for many urban problems, relatively few communities have come to the point of offering such an option to the voters and in most of the communities that have done so, the voters have rejected the idea. In 1972 the voters of Lexington and Fayette County, Kentucky, approved consolidation by a better than two to one margin. W. E. Lyons examines this victory for consolidation,