Southern Mainline and Old-Stock Communities
Non-Evangelical white Southern communities with old-stock, mainline Protestant or locally rooted settlement patterns.
- Stable id
- white_southern_mainline_old_stock
- 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
RaceEthnicity
- non-Hispanic white
Geography
- South and border South
Religion
- mainline Protestant, low-attendance or non-Evangelical context
What this group excludes
- White Evangelical, Cajun Catholic and professional Sunbelt communities
Historical affinities
These are research lenses for historical validation, not current partisan labels.
- Bryan producer populism
- Wallace backlash
- Anderson reform moderate
Geographic eligibility
Southern Mainline and Old-Stock Communities is structurally ineligible outside its documented 17 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
- 17
- 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.