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I do not believe for a moment that Queens, Nassau and Suffolk are Yankee country.
Granted I was born in the Bronx but I went to Flushing HS and lived in Smithtown (Suffolk) for years after getting married and I am 100% pinstriped Yankee fan. So were the vast majority of my friends. I saw a whole lot more Yankee apparel on the LIRR during the 2000 WS than Mets'.
As vision33r said, it's not just geography, it's demographic and cultural too. I still can't believe the Mets didn't try to sign Shin Soo Choo this off-season.
As a rule of thumb, Yanks everywhere but Brooklyn, Queens and Long Island (essentially the entirety of the geographic island of Long Island is Mets country).
That said, it is way more complicated than that as per jblake's description.
Not true.
Plenty of Yankees fans on Long Island. It's almost evenly divided among my friends...perhaps slight edge Yankees.
Brooklyn-Queens-LI, i.e. the entirety of Long Island goes Jets-Mets-Islanders-Knicks. Possibly the Nets as well since they started out on LI, but they're time on the island was short-lived, especially their days of prominence, once they got rid of the Michael Jordan of the league (Erving) at the time. NJ Nets fans in NY from what I could tell were about as common as the AB- blood type lol. Ebbets Field and the Giants were the heart of Brooklyn, and the Yankees and baseball Giants were viewed as bitterly as the Ravens and 'Skins rivalry. You stayed on your side, and knew your boundaries. Giants fans remained loyal to their division, and their natural distaste/dislike for the Bronx Bombers, and adopted the Mets. Will never understand how Brooklyn became a Yankees stronghold..
North Jersey/Manhattan/Bronx/Staten Island is Yankees-Giants-Knicks-Rangers. Staten Island is closer to (and even at times considered by some to be apart of) NJ, along with a Yanks minor league team playing here I believe. This has always been New York tradition. In the older days, being a Jets/Yankees fan or vice versa got you the schizo label, and wasn't viewed all that much differently than being an Eagles/Mets fan. Again, this is historical tradition, I'm not sure how some people can go against tradition like so. I'll be honest, Yankee and Giants fans from the LI, (to include Brk, Que, LI) especially Brooklyn have always disgusted me, as does the Yankee/Jet combos, Rangers fans from the Island, the Jets or Mets fan in the BX, and Jet/Ranger combos. I'm sure a lot of this has to do with family, but I also suspect these specific combos are a result of casual fandom (not trying to insult, just speaking for the fans that don't always watch, that perhaps like the colors, name, etc) or worse:
There were quite a few Yankees fans in Toronto when I was a kid in the 1960s (I cheered for the Red Sox largely because our Triple-A team then was Boston's top affiliate and I liked Joe Foy and Reggie Smith). I think the Yankees connection in these parts stemmed from the fact that rooftop antennas looped us into the world of Buffalo TV and Buffalo seemed to be a Yankees town. An older brother loved the Yanks, which added to my Red Sox fandom (I knew when Toronto was awarded an expansion franchise in the mid-1970s I'd become a Jays fan ... eventually ... but it took a few years and Dave Stieb to win me over).
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