[Vigilanteman]

Some other interesting facts about Luzerne County:

1. Site of the July 3, 1778 Battle of Wyoming, a one-sided affair in which British regulars, Tories and their Iroquois Allies killed over 340 regulars, local militia and settlers, many after they surrendered.
   
2. GOP has only 3 of 13 city council seats in Wilkes-Barre, the county seat. It has two of six state house districts and two of four state senate districts.
   
3. County is near evenly split between two U.S. House districts, that of the 11th of Lou Barletta (R–Hazleton) and 17th of Matthew Cartwright (D–Moosic).
   
4. Luzerne County is the only county in the United States with a plurality of citizens reporting Polish (22%) as their primary ancestry.
   
5. Registered Democrats (Pennsylvania is a closed primary state) outnumber registered Republicans by 59% to 32%.
   
6. Obama carried the country 51.5% to 46.7% in 2012 and 53.3% to 45% in 2008, almost a mirror of the Commonwealth margins of 52% to 46.6% in 2012 and 52.7% to 45.6% in 2008.

[Verginius Rufus]

The territory of Wyoming (now the state of Wyoming) was named after the Wyoming massacre. The congressman who first proposed the name was a Pennsylvania native. There were several other names proposed but that one won out.