Conservatives should fully support city rights. Democrats live mostly in cities. Cities should be granted unlimited powers of taxation and regulation, within city limits. It will lead to a mass exodus from high density, high government lifestyles to low density/government, like the migration from California to Texas on a smaller scale.
Building concrete and steel high rise apartments with elevators is now an obsolete technology in the age of high speed internet shopping, working, learning, entertainment, combined with politically supported viruses, riots, crime, illegals, mentally ill homeless, druggies. High density living breeds socialism.
From a natural point of view, big cities are a very recent invention that violent man does not have the genetics for. We are not insects, but descendants of winning warriors motivated by vanity and envy. We cannot silo humans 20 floors high and expect happy results.
Big cities developed to supply high labor factories with workers. These types of factories no longer exist outside of communist destroyed economies.
And when Texas becomes a carbon copy of California, where is there left to go?. No, the answer is to resist the calfornication of society. Turn the tide toward californication...
High density living generally breeds high density whacko-ism. Socialism is just one manifestation.