The 2nd District has also become increasingly Latino. “Some of that population could be shared with another district and probably linked up with other significant concentrations of Latino populations in the county to draw two effective Latino districts,” said Arturo Vargas, chief executive at the NALEO Educational Fund, which facilitates Latino political participation. Some argue that over the last three decades, the First District has grown so heavily Latino that some Latino voters should be split off into another district to provide a better chance of electing a second Latino supervisor - a goal that would be accomplished by the map inspired by the People’s Bloc plan. Intense jockeying underway as a state panel redraws California’s congressional seats Latino, Asian American, LGBTQ activists: They want to shape California’s congressional maps “For us, the value at the core of all of this is ensuring the most disenfranchised communities and their voices are heard through this process,” said Hector Sanchez, deputy director at Community Coalition, which helped organize People’s Bloc. Solis’ 1st District would contain about 51% Latino voters, as well as 26% Asian voters with the addition of Hacienda Heights, Rowland Heights and Diamond Bar. Under this proposal, about 56% of voters in the 4th District would be Latino.

The revamped 4th District would include heavily Latino communities, including South Gate, Huntington Park and Lynwood, that are now part of the 1st or 2nd districts. The beach cities from Marina del Rey to Long Beach that Hahn now represents would join Supervisor Sheila Kuehl’s 3rd District, creating a coastal band stretching north past Malibu to the Ventura County line. This map, which evolved from one submitted by a coalition of almost 30 community organizations called the People’s Bloc, would remake Supervisor Janice Hahn’s 4th District into a second Latino district. and advocates for both Black and Latino residents, is among the groups supporting a third map that would leave the 2nd District with about 30% Black voters. with coastal communities, which arguably dilutes Black voices and makes it more challenging for a Black candidate to win.Ĭommunity Coalition, which is based in South L.A. Mitchell and previously by Mark Ridley-Thomas, both of whom are Black.Īnother proposed map extends the 2nd District to the ocean, lumping South L.A. One of the maps concentrates many Black and Latino voters in the 2nd District, now represented by Supervisor Holly J. The three proposed maps could still be adjusted before the Dec. It has been 15 years since there was a Latino representative on the five-member board, which oversees a roughly $7.5-billion budget. supervisors approve majority-Latino district for five-member board

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