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[redplum33]

Originally Posted by MMS02760

Red Sox Nation now ends at the Pawtucket border as the team has no tangible connection to the state of RI these days.

Nonsense. Deeply embedded all throughout RI.

[masssachoicetts]

Originally Posted by MMS02760

The Yankees are likely to make new inroads in RI given the state is no longer part of Red Sox Nation after the team chose to abandon it. The state has long had many Yankee fans already in place going backs many decades with people of Italian heritage following the Yankees because years ago many of their players shared that same heritage.

It wont. RI is probaly like 70% Red Sox and 15% Yankees today... and like the NY Giants, the fandom is typically stronger amongst elder folks (ie., Italian Americans who watched the sport from the 50s-70s).

CT has gained a tremendous amount of Red Sox followers since 2004. It used to be like 60% Yankees, 30% Red Sox... now it is like 45% Yankees, 40% Red Sox. The border follows Guilford CT to Hartford CT then cuts NW to Torrington CT and up through the Berkshires, just east of Pittsfield... then slams back to the triborder of VT/NY/MA and cuts into NYS slowly. as you go north. Although, since COVID, the influx of NYrks moving to CT definitely has pushed that Red Sox/Yankees Line back again... probbaly out to Lyme and then cutting back towards Middletown and going straight up. It definitely shifted back up and Simsbury CT is probably Yankees territory now. The Windsors and Bloomfield are definitely Yankee country.

[massnative71]

Originally Posted by MMS02760

The Yankees are likely to make new inroads in RI given the state is no longer part of Red Sox Nation after the team chose to abandon it. The state has long had many Yankee fans already in place going backs many decades with people of Italian heritage following the Yankees because years ago many of their players shared that same heritage.

Originally Posted by MMS02760

Red Sox Nation now ends at the Pawtucket border as the team has no tangible connection to the state of RI these days.

You seem down bro...would it cheer you up if I brought you to a WooSox game this summer?

[Boston_Burbs]

I have been pleasantly surprised how popular baseball is in Vermont where I live now. The Sox are definitely #1 up here among the sports teams.

Also, basketball is quite popular, more so than hockey in the winter. Its by far their most followed high school tournament of the

[masssachoicetts]

Originally Posted by Boston_Burbs

I have been pleasantly surprised how popular baseball is in Vermont where I live now. The Sox are definitely #1 up here among the sports teams.

Also, basketball is quite popular, more so than hockey in the winter. Its by far their most followed high school tournament of the

Really? That cool. I always thought it was 50/50 in VT... like the Berkshires.

CT got more Red Sox from 2004-2019 (Obviously) but now there's like 30,000-40,000 New Yorkers moving to CT each year, so our Yankee fandom is taking over.

[WestRiverTraveler]

The line is the CT river, with more and more Yankee fans closer to the river. I grew up on the first town west river and it was maybe 60% Yankees, 40% Red Sox. East of the river pulled 38 and 56. West of the river was 11. You could pull 38 and 56 in my town, but 11 was more reliable.

If you know you know.

[GeoffD]

Originally Posted by Boston_Burbs

I have been pleasantly surprised how popular baseball is in Vermont where I live now. The Sox are definitely #1 up here among the sports teams.

Also, basketball is quite popular, more so than hockey in the winter. Its by far their most followed high school tournament of the

UVM makes the NCAA tournament most years and Stony Brook changed conferences so that is unlikely to change. UVM hockey is lousy at the moment.

Vermont has always been more heavily Red Sox than Yankees. They also had Expos fans back when that existed. Chittenden County is an easy drive to Montreal. It’s also split between the Bruins and Les Habs in Northern Vermont because they get Montreal television.

[masssachoicetts]

Originally Posted by WestRiverTraveler

The line is the CT river, with more and more Yankee fans closer to the river. I grew up on the first town west river and it was maybe 60% Yankees, 40% Red Sox. East of the river pulled 38 and 56. West of the river was 11. You could pull 38 and 56 in my town, but 11 was more reliable.

If you know you know.

Well then you get towns like Granby, Simsbury, West Hartford, East Granby, Suffield, Canton, Barkhamstead, Hartland and Norfolk which swings Red Sox. Then some of the shore towns like Clinton, the Lyme's, Madison, Old Saybrook, Westbrook and Chester that swing Sox.

But then East of the River, you have random pockets... like Norwich, and New London that go very Yankees. Then the Windsors, East Hartford and maybe Portland-Glastonbury?

Id say the line is decent... but not a perfect measure.

[CaseyB]

Take it to the Connecticut forum please.

[WestRiverTraveler]

Originally Posted by masssachoicetts

Clinton, the Lyme's, Madison, Old Saybrook, Westbrook and Chester that swing Sox.


Id say the line is decent... but not a perfect measure.

Absolutely not true. I live in Madison. It's a Yankee town. I grew up in Old Saybrook. It's 60-40 Yankees to Sox. Old Lyme swings Sox, but that's the east side of the river.