Use these questions to think more about how you would describe your community...
  - Where do people in your community gather or socialize?
  - How and where does your community access services (healthcare, transportation, educational services, etc.)?

Examples of activities and services: Shopping areas, schools and universities, libraries, parks, lakes, rivers, places of worship, healthcare services, public transport, local nonprofit organizations, etc.

Your response: My Community lives, shops and worships on James Island. Utilize health and public transportation.

Use these questions to think more about how you would describe your community...
  - What are the cultural bonds in your community?
  - If your community has a shared history, what is it?

Examples of cultural or historical interests: Religious groups, ethnic groups, languages, age groups, immigration status, historic or arts districts, etc.

Your response: My community is African Americans who have lived on the island since before 1865. We are the descendants of first African American landowners on James Island. We are the descendants of the slaves who worked on the plantations that populated James Island; Grimball, Sol Legare, Dill. We are the descendants of the Freedmen who negotiated tenancy in lieu of sharecropping which allowed for this ownership when the US failed to secure appropriate re

Use these questions to think more about how you would describe your community...
  - Where are residents employed?
  - If there are environmental concerns in your community, what are they?

Examples of economic or environmental interests: Tourism industry, agricultural workers, mining town, manufacturing center, polluted natural resource, unemployment problem, etc.

Your response: My community is the entirety of James Island, its natural water boundaries.

Use these questions to think more about how you would describe your community...
  - What should politicians and/or map drawers know about your community?
  - What are the needs of your community?
  - Is there anything else you want to tell us about your community?

Examples of needs or concerns: Keep community in the same district or separate into multiple districts, shared policy concerns, need for a social service, relationship to other nearby communities, issues with current district lines

Your response: We have been politically disenfranchised since slavery. We, as a unified community, emerged out of slavery, reconstruction, and Jim Crow Segregation to provide providence where nation and state did not. Community, Gullah, close knit and land. Gullah - Vestiges of True African cultural lineage. Unincorporated area, two towns, but one black heritage, cracked by towns, legislative district, and gerrymandered into a republican district