The Times takes up the critical question of locating the boundary between Red Sox and Yankees fans in New York and Connecticut. They do a comprehensive survey of the boundary line in CT, but only a fairly cursory sweep north.
Albany is on the Yankees side of the line, but it's a near thing. Union's student body is drawn heavily from New England, and runs probably 50/50, maybe leaning a bit toward the Sox (since some of the NY students are actually Mets fans).
Sadly for Kate, the situation is less positive for expat Bostonians in football-- between the Giants (whose training camp is held in Albany), the Jets, and the Bills, she hardly ever gets a chance to see the Patriots...
(I'm tempted to put this in the "Culture Wars" channel on the front page-- the real red/blue split is the one between Boston and New York, after all...)
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Good article, thanks for the link. My dad grew up in New York, so I grew up a Yankees fan in Ohio, and now my son is a Yankee fan in Chicago. He got a lot of comments on his Yankee hat when we spent a week in Boston last year, and he almost never hears negative NY comments when he wears his Yankee cap in Chicago. He also didn't want to leave Cooperstown this summer - Yankees everywhere, as it should be, and of course the Hallowed Hall Of Yankees (some call it the Hall of Fame).