re: Favorite teams by zip code

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I would've thought we'd have carried a border county in Georgia. That surprised me.

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I think the results probably understate how visible a team is in an area. I think there are a ton of "fans" who probably don't outwardly show allegiance, but just loosely affiliate with some team when they don't really care. The 10-15% Auburn in Coweta and Fayette is seen pretty heavily, to the extent that people often comment that it's close to even with UGA (it isn't, but there Auburn fans are more visible, while a lot of people casually follow UGA).

For example, Alabama is basically second in a 75% of counties in the southeast, but you don't feel that presence everywhere. I bet the Cowboys would have a similar number.

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I would've thought we'd have carried a border county in Georgia. That surprised me.

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Yeah that's weird. Us having support in NC didn't surprise me although I was surprised at the amount of support in Virginia (figured that wouldn't go much further than the Tri-Cities).

In TN... Knox, Union, Campbell, Grainger and Jefferson having 3-5%+ Gators really shows how much retirees have impacted E. TN lately. For example, there really shouldn't be a soul in Union or Grainger that's a Gator fan (microscopic in population and no jobs to bring in new blood) but recently those itty bitty counties have sold lakefront and mountain view property developments to a lot of outsider retirees. Near those two counties, Claiborne Co. which hasn't had a lot of retirees come in, shows what it should be which is Vols then Wildcats.