; Whereas these tens of millions of poor and low-income people live in every region, State, and county of the Nation, including approximately: 50,000,000 in the South (Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Missouri, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia), 40,000,000 in Appalachia (Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia), and over 8,000,000 in New York alone, over 40,000,000 in the Southwest/Border (Arizona, California, Colorado, New Mexico, Nevada, Texas, Utah), 20,000,000 in California alone, 20,000,000 in the Midwest deindustrialized States (Ohio, Pennsylvania, Indiana, Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin), 11,000,000 in the Northeast (Connecticut, Delaware, Massachusetts, Maryland, Maine, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Rhode Island, Vermont), 7,000,000 in the Northwest (Alaska, Idaho, Oregon, Washington, Wyoming), 7,000,000 in the Great Plains (Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota), 700,000 in Hawaii, and 300,000 in Washington, DC; Whereas systemic racism takes the form of laws and policies that target people of color, especially poor people of color, to create and deepen inequities in democracy, health, economic security, education, housing, jobs, policing, incarceration, criminalization, and immigration, which has contributed to the disproportionate impact of COVID–19 on poor communities of color; Whereas, since 2010, at least 25 States had passed new voter restrictions, imposing racist gerrymandering and redistricting, restricting early voting and voting hours, purging voter rolls, closing polling stations, and instituting onerous voter ID laws