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Old 09-21-2009, 08:58 PM
 
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You are not going to find many in New Haven.
A Red Sox fan in New Haven County is akin to a Cowboys fan....they like them because they are bandwagoners...it is arrogance and laughable that Larry Lucchino, John Henry, and Theo Epstein pretty much BEG southern CT and New Haven county to like them....it just seems to beyond their comprehension that there is no state of New England.
The term New England is just a region...and CT is just as much New England as it is tri-state New York.
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Old 09-21-2009, 09:19 PM
 
Location: Quiet Corner Connecticut
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There was a Saturday evening, I was at Bru Bar in New Haven on a day of a Sox/Yanks game. Quite a few people there were cheering for Boston.
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Old 09-21-2009, 09:23 PM
 
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Probably last night quite a few were also cheering for the Cowboys.
Bandwagon NOT locals.

The gravity model dictates that a city 1 which is 4 times larger and 3 times closer would have more influence culturally on area x than city 2.
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Old 09-22-2009, 06:15 AM
 
Location: Live in NY, work in CT
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Probably last night quite a few were also cheering for the Cowboys.
Bandwagon NOT locals.

The gravity model dictates that a city 1 which is 4 times larger and 3 times closer would have more influence culturally on area x than city 2.
Somewhat disagree (and this from a Yankee fan). NY City's hugeness produces more of an influence, but in some people it's a negative influence.

As noted in another thread, I certainly think the Q poll and Sox marketing people have greatly exaggerated the numbers, but I also think that where you start seeing it change begins somewhere, and that somewhere is NH County. It is the county where at least some parts stop getting NY television (and more so radio) so (as I provide evidence of in that other thread) you start seeing people who if they are negative of NY culture and influence can more openly express it in a way less possible in Fairfield County.

The 99 restaurant chain (very Sox oriented) goes out to parts of NH county but is sparse there and stops there, just as an example. They are so New England and Red Sox oriented (i.e. kids eat free when they win) that I imagine they would have to even use a different name if they ever expanded to Fairfield and beyond (though W.B. Mason office supplies somehow became "schizophrenic" about this when they expanded so that they are very Yankees AND Sox oriented in their marketing somehow). So again, while I certainly think NH county is mostly "Yankees country", I don't think Sox fans from there are the equivalent of Dallas Cowboy fans from there, more like the equivlent of Phillies fans in central NJ. Again, I emphasize it's where you START seeing it change, not where it is 50/50 Sox/Yankees, that may even not happen until the RI border.
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