Great Lakes Industrial Ethnics
Catholic and Orthodox white ethnic communities of the Great Lakes and industrial Ohio Valley.
- Stable id
- white_industrial_ethnic
- Family
- White
- 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
Ancestry
- Polish, Slovak, Hungarian, Croatian, Serbian, Italian or related industrial settlement
Religion
- Catholic or Orthodox context
Geography
- Great Lakes industrial corridor
What this group excludes
- Northeastern Catholic and nonindustrial general white communities
Historical affinities
These are research lenses for historical validation, not current partisan labels.
- Debs labor socialism
- Smith urban ethnic
- Buchanan nationalist
- Machine transactional
Geographic eligibility
Great Lakes Industrial Ethnics is structurally ineligible outside its documented 6 allowed states 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
- 6
- 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.