Upper Midwest Civic and Farmer-Labor Communities
German, Scandinavian and Finnish communities shaped by Lutheran, cooperative, Farmer-Labor, mining and La Follette traditions.
- Stable id
- white_upper_midwest_civic
- 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
- German, Norwegian, Swedish, Danish or Finnish
Religion
- Lutheran or mainline context
Geography
- Upper Midwest
What this group excludes
- Professional college metros and Southern or western communities
Historical affinities
These are research lenses for historical validation, not current partisan labels.
- Lafollette farmer labor
- Debs labor socialism
- Perot anti system
Geographic eligibility
Upper Midwest Civic and Farmer-Labor Communities 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.