The new state legislative maps will determine who has political power in Pennsylvania for the next 10 years. For too long, the borders of these maps have often used gerrymandering to split communities of color, preventing them from forming a voting bloc whose voices must be heard. This robs these communities of the resources and power that they deserve and contributes to generational cycles of poverty.
People of color have represented almost the entirety of population growth in the commonwealth over the past 10 years. Pennsylvania’s Asian population grew by 46% between 2010 and 2020, according to U.S. Census data, and its Hispanic population grew by nearly 40%. According to our analyses, communities of color account for roughly 27.5% of Pennsylvania’s total population.
And yet, as of 2020, our state’s highest lawmaking body — the General Assembly — was 90% white.
At Pennsylvania Voice, our goal is to build a more inclusive democracy, so throughout the redistricting process, we and our statewide partner organizations have consistently argued that the new state legislative maps must be drawn with racial equity as a core consideration.
We and our partners have testified at multiple public hearings about the effort to redraw our legislative maps. After gathering input from 700 members of Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC) communities across Pennsylvania, we developed a series of Unity Maps, in which we propose eight House district maps in five counties that have...
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