Linguistic boundaries [was: A novel notion of "balance"]

[Alice Faber]

On 1/12/14 9:54 PM, Laurence Horn wrote:
> On Jan 12, 2014, at 8:07 PM, Alice Faber wrote:
>
>> On 1/12/14 2:35 PM, Joel S. Berson wrote:
>>> At 1/12/2014 01:51 PM, Laurence Horn wrote:
>>>> --LH (in Pats' country)
>>>
>>> I will assume LH was somewhere close to New Haven when he wrote the
>>> above.  If not, the questions are still answerable but perhaps the
>>> answers less interesting.)
>>>
>>> Where is the Patriots--Giants boundary?  Further west than the Red
>>> Sox's--Yankees boundary?
>>>
>>> Joel (also in Pats' country as I write, but formerly from Yankees' country)
>>>
>>
>> When the Giants faced the Patriots in the Superbowl a few years ago, the
>> Trader Joes in Milford, CT
>
> Orange!

Guilty!
>
>> had its door soaped with both logos. In my
>> neighborhood, a wee bit north of Larry's, there's a fairly even mix of
>> Patriots and Giants flags out on game days, with the balance shifting
>> with the teams' relative fortunes.
>>
>> As for the Red Sox-Yankees boundary, I would say it's shifted east in
>> the past decade. This isn't just due to the Red Sox' recent success
>> (though that contributed); the addition of Red Sox broadcasts to cable
>> systems in the New Haven area makes it much easier to follow the Sox
>> these days.
>>
>> Alice
>
> Alice--you do mean the boundary has shifted west, right?  Or maybe New Haven County has shifted east?  Either way I agree, and I think both radio (especially for baseball) and football (especially for TV) has played a major role in establishing the relevant isofans.  (For football, there's always been the two networks for the two leagues/conferences including the Pats and Giants, so it's been easy to maintain one's Giants roots into even northern New England while--if you'll allow for the possibility--also being fans of the Pats, although those two recent Super Bowls between the two franchises did force one to choose one's primary allegiance.
>

Yep...the other east. Towards the Pacific.

> The shops in Hamden (just north of New Haven, where I reside) do feature Pats, Giants, and Jets regalia indiscriminately (and always UConn stuff), the amounts varying with the fortunes of the teams.
>

Alice

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