Cajun and Gulf Catholic Communities
Cajun, Acadian and related Gulf Catholic communities centered in Acadiana and South Louisiana.
- Stable id
- white_cajun_gulf_catholic
- Family
- White
- Definition
- 0.3.0
- Status
- Experimental
- 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
Ancestry
- Cajun, Acadian, French or French Canadian in Gulf context
Religion
- Catholic context
Geography
- Acadiana and South Louisiana
What this group excludes
- Northeastern, Great Lakes and generic Sunbelt Catholic communities
Historical affinities
These are research lenses for historical validation, not current partisan labels.
- Smith urban ethnic
- Machine transactional
- Wallace backlash
Geographic eligibility
Cajun and Gulf Catholic Communities is structurally ineligible outside its documented 1 allowed states and 11 core counties footprint. Ineligible mass is reassigned to White general nonprofessional within the same family.
- Mode
- Hard regional restriction
- Direct anchor
- Required
- Outside policy
- Exclude
- Family fallback
- White general nonprofessional
- Allowed states
- 1
- 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.