East Asian and Filipino Metropolitan Communities
Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Filipino and related communities, with class and nativity retained as secondary gradients.
- Stable id
- asian_east_filipino_metro
- Family
- Asian
- Definition
- 0.3.0
- Status
- Core
- Catalog state
- Current
- Eligibility
- Origin-context eligibility
Membership describes modeled social and demographic community, not party registration, ideology or a guaranteed vote. The same group can change turnout and candidate preference across elections.
Observable anchors
Ancestry
- East Asian or Filipino origin
Geography
- metropolitan and suburban settlement
What this group excludes
- Southeast Asian refugee-origin communities
Historical affinities
These are research lenses for historical validation, not current partisan labels.
- Tr progressive reform
- Anderson reform moderate
Geographic eligibility
Core and diaspora geography can strengthen this classification, but direct ancestry, religion or identity evidence is required. Geography alone cannot create membership; unsupported mass returns to Asian other general.
- Mode
- Origin-context eligibility
- Direct anchor
- Required
- Outside policy
- Anchor only
- Family fallback
- Asian other general
- Allowed states
- National/anchor based
- Core counties
- Not county-limited
Source. U.S. Census ACS/PUMS; CES; GSS; U.S. Religion Census; immutable definition registry · mutually exclusive soft membership under Akashic voter-typology definition 0.3.0. The current definition is published independently of model promotion. Place-level shares remain tied to the exact definition/model run shown on each Place panel. Real returns — nothing estimated.