Southern Metropolitan and Suburban Black Communities
Black communities in New South metropolitan and suburban growth corridors.
- Stable id
- black_southern_metro
- Family
- Black
- Definition
- 0.3.0
- Status
- Core
- Catalog state
- Current
- Eligibility
- Hard regional restriction
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
RaceEthnicity
- non-Hispanic Black
Geography
- Atlanta, Charlotte, Raleigh-Durham, Richmond, Houston and comparable Southern metros
What this group excludes
- Rural Black Belt and directly identified African or Caribbean immigrant communities
Historical affinities
These are research lenses for historical validation, not current partisan labels.
- Machine transactional
- Tr progressive reform
Geographic eligibility
Southern Metropolitan and Suburban Black Communities is structurally ineligible outside its documented 17 allowed states and 11 core counties footprint. Ineligible mass is reassigned to Black metro legacy general within the same family.
- Mode
- Hard regional restriction
- Direct anchor
- Not required
- Outside policy
- Exclude
- Family fallback
- Black metro legacy general
- Allowed states
- 17
- Core counties
- 11
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.