How do you embolden secessionists?

You beat them in an election, of course. That's just politics 101.

Just days after her weekend runoff win over Bodi White, who had been a key player in the failed breakaway St. George movement before backing away from it during the campaign, proponents of carving out a new city were back on the case. Newspaper editor and veteran politician Woody Jenkins, one of the movement's chief proponents, went so far as to say he's 99 percent sure of success next time.