Mexican-Origin Borderland and Working-Class Communities
Mexican-origin communities shaped by borderland, agricultural, industrial and working-class settlement patterns.
- Stable id
- latino_mexican_borderland
- Family
- Latino
- 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
- Mexican origin
Demography
- noncollege, bilingual or Spanish at home
Geography
- Southwest, South Texas and Central Valley
What this group excludes
- Non-Mexican Latino origins without Mexican evidence
Historical affinities
These are research lenses for historical validation, not current partisan labels.
- Machine transactional
- Perot anti system
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 Latino other general.
- Mode
- Origin-context eligibility
- Direct anchor
- Required
- Outside policy
- Anchor only
- Family fallback
- Latino 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.