Out of 1.5 million Hispanic or multiracial Hispanic residents in Pennsylvania, almost 12%, just four Latinos serve in the 253-seat Legislature. That’s under 2%. Proportional representation would be more like 29 seats.
The commission could make changes before it issues final maps, and Victor Martinez — who testified twice during commission hearings this year — said it should.
“You might have made it more inclusive, but as far as my testimony, as far as the people who I represent and the people I testified for, they didn't do us any good, they didn't make it any easier,” Martinez said in an interview. Pennsylvania’s shrinking white population and growing Hispanic population is relatively extraordinary.
Four metropolitan areas — Pittsburgh, Reading, Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton and Scranton-Wilkes-Barre — also would have lost population but for new Hispanic residents. It’s the same for seven counties: Berks, Lackawanna, Lehigh, Luzerne, Pike, Snyder and Washington. Carol Kuniholm, the chair of Fair Districts PA, a nonpartisan project of the League of Women Voters of Pennsylvania, complimented the proposed House map. But she attacked its Senate counterpart as a product of “buddy-mandering” that protects incumbents.
Republicans hold majorities in both chambers, including 142 of 253 seats while representing the vast majority of the whitest stretches across Pennsylvania where the population is stagnant.
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