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Poultry Processing

NAICS 311615 · 1,777 matched workers · high confidence

Roughly balanced
50.6% Democratic, 49.4% Republican

Two-party shares across 1,777 workers in the Poultry Processing industry.

50.6%
49.4%
DemocraticRepublican
Imputed
49.9% D · 50.1% R
Includes lean for unaffiliated registrants
Hierarchy
Manufacturing › Animal Slaughtering and Processing
NAICS2 31 · NAICS4 3116
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Where Poultry Processing falls

Near the middle of industries in Manufacturing (45th percentile).

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Each dot is one of the 63 other industries in Manufacturing; size scales by workforce. Hover to see names — click to jump.

How this is measured

VRscores estimate the partisan composition of an industry by linking voter registration records to employment profiles, then aggregating workers up the NAICS hierarchy. The two-party shares above exclude workers with no major-party affiliation.

Read the full methodology or the published Organization Science paper.

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Citation

Kagan, Max; Frake, Justin; Hurst, Reuben (2026). “VRscores: A New Measure and Data Set of Workforce Politics Using Voter Registrations.” Organization Science, 37(2), 444–465.
https://doi.org/10.1287/orsc.2025.20402