Yankee Girl Survives First Year at Southern University

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Originally Posted by ASTalumna06

I would also argue that the distance between cities with professional sports teams is greater in the south than in the north. And the New England states like Maine, Vermont, and New Hampshire are "cut off" from other major cities with sports teams and don't have one large college to rally around, so they follow the professional teams in Boston more than anything else.

So very true. In the Midwest you can be in any number of cities within 2-3 hours. Chicago and Milwaukee are only an hour apart. Most of the major cities in the South are a healthy 3-4 hour drive apart.