Western Libertarian, Ranching and Exurban Communities
Non-LDS western white communities shaped by ranching, extraction, self-employment and exurban settlement.
- Stable id
- white_western_libertarian
- 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
Geography
- Interior West and Alaska
Demography
- ranching, extraction, self-employment or exurban growth
RaceEthnicity
- non-Hispanic white
What this group excludes
- LDS communities and western professional metros without the occupational or exurban context
Historical affinities
These are research lenses for historical validation, not current partisan labels.
- Goldwater western conservative
- Perot anti system
Geographic eligibility
Western Libertarian, Ranching and Exurban Communities is structurally ineligible outside its documented 12 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
- 12
- 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.