I lived in Ft Lauderdale for 60 years. It was a much better, well governed place when the city commission was 100% white males. Then the people approved single member districts because “inclusion” and it’s been an accelerating downhill slide ever since.
Same thing in our little FL county in the panhandle.
At-large commissioners meant no black commissioners until the NAACP sued in the late 60s under the Voting Rights Act.
Since then, each district commissioner protects his little rice bowl to the detriment of others.
Just awful.