Could We Be Cowed into Losing the Mississippi Valley Conference?

I feel if Dubuque Public and Parochial and Western Dubuque are cowed into the Mississippi Athletic Conference, it could be the end of the Mississippi Valley Conference. I hate to sound like a stick in the mud, but, Dubuque is the reason Mississippi Valley Conference exists and every one of our Big Schools and Illinois Quad Cities Bigs have had Mississippi Valley Conference history.

This could be debiliating not only Iowa, but Eastern Iowa public opinion as well. We'd have stubborn yet controversial Conference Alignments (Southeast Iowa Super Conference), an overgrown WaMaC with membership outgrowing its core Wapsipinicon and Mississippi and Cedar Membership, and not getting Lisbon and North Cedar in Conference.

I don't know if this would cause a more hyper-local Conference Scene, but, it would cause Sportsmanship Issues due to well hewn Public Opinion. And, with DeWitt Central getting approved with the Mississippi Athletic Conference, which membership has been unchanged since its Mid 1980s Founding, and Burlington getting out for the Southeast Iowa Conference upset the Apple Cart there.