Western and Sunbelt White Catholic Communities
White Catholic communities in the West and Sunbelt that do not belong to Northeastern, Great Lakes or Gulf institutional traditions.
- Stable id
- white_western_sunbelt_catholic
- 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
Religion
- Catholic context
Geography
- West and Sunbelt
What this group excludes
- Northeastern Catholic, Great Lakes industrial and Cajun or Gulf Catholic communities
Historical affinities
These are research lenses for historical validation, not current partisan labels.
- Anderson reform moderate
- Machine transactional
Geographic eligibility
Western and Sunbelt White Catholic Communities is structurally ineligible outside its documented 10 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
- 10
- 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.