Latter-day Saint Communities
Institutionally cohesive Latter-day Saint voters classified across races, with geography used as supporting context rather than a substitute for identity.
- Stable id
- lds_community
- Family
- Lds
- Definition
- 0.3.0
- Status
- Core
- Catalog state
- Current
- Eligibility
- National with direct anchor
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
Religion
- Latter-day Saint identity
Geography
- Utah and Intermountain settlement corridors
What this group excludes
- Non-LDS western residents
Historical affinities
These are research lenses for historical validation, not current partisan labels.
- Goldwater western conservative
- Anderson reform moderate
Geographic eligibility
This community may appear nationally when direct identity or demographic evidence is present. Core geography changes the prior but cannot substitute for the required anchor.
- Mode
- National with direct anchor
- Direct anchor
- Required
- Outside policy
- Anchor only
- Family fallback
- Lds community
- 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.