Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Communities
Native Hawaiian, Samoan, Chamorro and other Pacific Islander communities kept separate from Asian and residual categories.
- Stable id
- pacific_islander
- Family
- Pacific islander
- Definition
- 0.3.0
- Status
- Experimental
- 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
RaceEthnicity
- Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander
Ancestry
- Native Hawaiian, Samoan, Chamorro or related Pacific origin
What this group excludes
- Asian identity without Pacific Islander evidence
Historical affinities
These are research lenses for historical validation, not current partisan labels.
- Machine transactional
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
- Pacific islander
- 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.