October 3, 2014 · 12:17 PM

Today’s cool thing

Lots of folks playing with this interactive fan map, courtesy of the NY Times.

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32 responses to “Today’s cool thing”

  1. Ben
    October 3, 2014 at 12:24 PM

    I’m imagining that most of the people who claim to be “Alabama Crimson Tide” fans from my hometown were actually UF or Tennessee fans in the 90s when I was growing up.

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  2. Spence
    October 3, 2014 at 12:30 PM

    I move the chair to have Dade County, Georgia removed from the state or burned to the ground. (see top left corner of state for reason why)

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  3. Doggoned
    October 3, 2014 at 12:31 PM

    Not sure how accurate this map is. Hard to believe that there there are only Duke football fans in the vicinity of Kenan Stadium in Chapel Hill, NC. In fact, I know the Heels are struggling, but UNC isn’t even listed.

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    • Doggoned
      October 3, 2014 at 12:35 PM

      Can tell you for a fact, very few fans, even a lot of Duke fans, don’t give much of a damn about Duke football. Sorry, Cut.

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    • Spence
      October 3, 2014 at 12:53 PM

      You can scroll on the map and it will tell you the percentage of fans. Even in Athens-Clarke County, UGA tops out at 60%. Looks like Duke tops out at about 27%.

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    • Bulldog Joe
      October 3, 2014 at 1:00 PM

      Fun map, but UNC is not in the top three in any county in North Carolina?

      I call BS.

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    • charlottedawg
      October 3, 2014 at 1:21 PM

      I’ve met very few people in NC who have a neutral opinion of duke. They either are a fan or hate them even if they don’t cheer for unc. The tar heel state is the tar heels’ state.

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    • Americus Dawg
      October 3, 2014 at 1:31 PM

      I just clicked on the interactive map and noticed this note at the top of the page …

      “Facebook has a discovered a coding error with its data for North Carolina, and we expect to have corrected data soon.”

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  4. WH
    October 3, 2014 at 12:44 PM

    Based on this, I wonder what the results of the Montana Project would have been were it instead called “The North Dakota Project” or “The Maine Project.”

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  5. Scorpio Jones, III
    October 3, 2014 at 12:55 PM

    “In the Southeast, strong programs like Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana State and Oklahoma dominate their states — and stop right at the border.”

    Apparently OU is readying itself for another change of conferences.

    Alabama does not stop right at the border. Or maybe border does not mean what I thought it meant.

    But the most interesting piece of now suspect information I got from the map is that the Oregon Ducks are doing some hellatious marketing.

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  6. rocksalt
    October 3, 2014 at 1:09 PM

    Look at the (relatively) large amount of Gator fans in the North East

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    • 3rdandGrantham
      October 3, 2014 at 1:52 PM

      Look at the large number of northeast fans (now) living in Florida.

      When I lived in Tampa, I was amazed how many Gator fans had northern accents (or at least non-southern ones if nothing else). No surprise that some would return home and/or spend their summer months in retirement back in the northeast.

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      • Deutschland Domiciliary Dog
        October 3, 2014 at 3:06 PM

        When I lived in Naples few of the Gator fans there had southern accents. In fact, very few Neapolitans had southern accents. Mainly because most everyone had moved there from Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Mexico, Cuba, etc.

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    • Timphd
      October 3, 2014 at 4:36 PM

      As a Bulldog exiled to Maine I can tell you that anyone up here with Gator ties is just rooting for a team from a place they vacation often. Maybe a few alumni. Not many true college football fans up here. Pro football much more popular. Even the univ of Maine can’t draw more than a few thousand fans despite making the playoffs now and then. More attend UMaine hockey than football. I proudly wear my UGA gear up here and now and then hear a “Go Dawgs”. See some Gator gear but I’d bet most of them couldn’t name a player. Same with Bama or Oregon fans. Do wish they would at least pick more respectable teams than FU to root for.

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  7. Rex
    October 3, 2014 at 1:11 PM

    I was hoping for some Georgia fans in Montanta.

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  8. Bulldog Joe
    October 3, 2014 at 1:16 PM

    9% of the Georgia Tech campus cheers for the yellow jackets.

    Sounds about right.

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    • 3rdandGrantham
      October 3, 2014 at 1:48 PM

      Apparently you missed the China and India interactive maps, in which GT dominates along with Shanghai and Indira Gandhi University, respectively.

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    • Alkaline
      October 3, 2014 at 2:03 PM

      At the student center today I overheard a group of undergrads passionately discussing this season’s SEC West race… and laughing at Bobby Dodd’s short-sightedness 🙂

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  9. budro
    October 3, 2014 at 2:05 PM

    Ohio State makes a relatively strong showing in a couple eastern South Carolina counties. Weird.

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  10. DeputyDawg
    October 3, 2014 at 2:28 PM

    Zip Code 31562 needs to go.
    UF 34% FSU 18% UGA 17%

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  11. stoopnagle
    October 3, 2014 at 3:42 PM

    Man, Cal has it hard. Not one freakin’ zip code. Even San Jose St. dominates some parts of the Bay Area.

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  12. Will Trane
    October 3, 2014 at 3:44 PM

    Geography.

    Valosta High School returns to Sandord Stadium this week.
    Bring on the Dores. Winnersville players are coming on board.
    Get ready to run the jolly roger.

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  13. AusDawg85
    October 3, 2014 at 3:51 PM

    Jefferson County, outside of Birmingham, leans for Bama, but zoom in on the largest prison in the state and interestingly, its 100% for Auburn.

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  14. Gaskilldawg
    October 4, 2014 at 6:41 AM

    Interesting how so many Mississippi zip codes prefer Mississippi State over Ole Miss. Of course, the map shows area and not population, so it does not tell us what percent of the total population prefers Miss State over Ole Miss

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