Lancaster County Map

Over the last decade, Lancaster County has grown rapidly: overall, since 2010 30,000 people of color moved into the county and the white population has just slightly decreased. In particular, the Latino and mixed race communities have seen significant growth. We drew our maps based in part off of 149 submissions from community members who identified the parts of Lancaster County that represent their community. 

This map would drop the wealthier, whiter populations from northwest Lancaster, including Franklin and Marshall College, from the 96th House District. To take their place, this map would add communities from the southwest of Lancaster to the district, where most of Lancaster County's communities of color live. As a result, the electorate of PA's 96th House District would go from being majority-white to majority people of color, which would provide the much-needed ability for more Pennsylvania communities of color to elect their candidates of choice.