# Which pro teams do Alaskans, Puerto Ricans and Hawaiians support? **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [November 4, 2015, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-pro-teams-do-alaskans-puerto-ricans-and-hawaiians-support/736636 "2015-11-04T18:55:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2015, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-pro-teams-do-alaskans-puerto-ricans-and-hawaiians-support/736636/1 "2015-11-04T18:55:50Z")
My guess is that Alaskans support Seattle teams (Pacific Northwest,) Hawaiians support a wide range of Californian teams, and Puerto Ricans support Miami teams. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Bravo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_bravo/32/493_2.png) [@Johnny\_Bravo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Bravo)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2015, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-pro-teams-do-alaskans-puerto-ricans-and-hawaiians-support/736636/2 "2015-11-04T19:42:59Z")
[A pro football map.](http://sports.cbsimg.net/images/blogs/Facebook-NFL-fan-map-hi-res.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2015, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-pro-teams-do-alaskans-puerto-ricans-and-hawaiians-support/736636/3 "2015-11-04T19:45:03Z")
According to any number of sources, the most popular baseball team in Hawaii is, perhaps surprisingly, the New York Yankees. Yankee popularity is widespread in a lot of places that are not represented by a local professional club. Of course, the Yankees have been exceptionally successful in the last two decades so that might change if they’re not for awhile. According to one source I found that actually broke it down by county, the Oakland A’s have the rather unenviable distinction of being the only MLB team that is not the favourite team in ANY county, anywhere, even the one they play in. (The map also does not cite the Blue Jays, but only because it doesn’t include Canada, where the Blue Jays are the most popular almost everywhere.) Alaska does indeed mostly support the Mariners. I can’t find a decent source for Puerto Rico. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2015, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-pro-teams-do-alaskans-puerto-ricans-and-hawaiians-support/736636/4 "2015-11-04T19:47:25Z")
Puerto Ricans may be more closely tied with New York Metro area teams. There’s been a large Puerto Rican community in New York that goes back to before there were any major pro teams in Florida. ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2015, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-pro-teams-do-alaskans-puerto-ricans-and-hawaiians-support/736636/5 "2015-11-04T20:11:32Z")
I’m not much of a decent source being not a big sportsfan, but still my circle of contacts in San Juan from everyday conversations: MLB Yankees, Red Sox, Mets, Rays; NBA Lakers, Spurs, whoever’s got JJ Barea, whoever’s got LeBron, whoever’s playing against LeBron, Heat; fútbol Barcelona, Real Madrid; NFL Pats, whoever’s playng the Pats, Giants, Jets. Obviously ChicagoRicans and TexaRicans may have different MLB/NFL alignments, could not blame them. ---
**Author:** ![Do\_Not\_Taunt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/do_not_taunt/32/2968_2.png) [@Do\_Not\_Taunt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Do_Not_Taunt)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2015, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-pro-teams-do-alaskans-puerto-ricans-and-hawaiians-support/736636/6 "2015-11-04T20:55:22Z")
> [@RickJay](#): > > According to any number of sources, the most popular baseball team in Hawaii is, perhaps surprisingly, the New York Yankees. Yankee popularity is widespread in a lot of places that are not represented by a local professional club. Of course, the Yankees have been exceptionally successful in the last two decades so that might change if they’re not for awhile. Here’s an [MLB fan map.](http://regressing.deadspin.com/heres-facebooks-2015-mlb-fandom-map-1695021778) The amount of color is obviously weighted by area and not by population, which can be misleading in some ways. For example, it looks like Hawaii mostly supports the Giants (I think that’s Giant orange, anyway), except, that one island colored black also contains most of the population. Same with Alaska: the Mariners get most of the population, but the Red Sox appear to get a huge chunk of central Alaska. ---
**Author:** ![Ponch8](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponch8/32/9883_2.png) [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2015, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-pro-teams-do-alaskans-puerto-ricans-and-hawaiians-support/736636/7 "2015-11-04T21:36:45Z")
> [@Do\_Not\_Taunt](#): > > Here’s an [MLB fan map.](http://regressing.deadspin.com/heres-facebooks-2015-mlb-fandom-map-1695021778) The amount of color is obviously weighted by area and not by population, which can be misleading in some ways. For example, it looks like Hawaii mostly supports the Giants (I think that’s Giant orange, anyway), except, that one island colored black also contains most of the population. Same with Alaska: the Mariners get most of the population, but the Red Sox appear to get a huge chunk of central Alaska. There seems to be a county in Oklahoma full of diehard Pirates fans. I wonder if that county is so sparsely populated that only one person answered the survey. ---
**Author:** ![Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a587f6/32.png) [@Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freddy_the_Pig)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2015, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-pro-teams-do-alaskans-puerto-ricans-and-hawaiians-support/736636/8 "2015-11-04T22:22:23Z")
It occurs to me, for the first time, that the White Sox and Cubs are the only two teams that play in the same county. I also notice that Cook County is colored White Sox on the facebook map. This astonishes me since Cook County includes the near-north and northwest suburbs that are packed wall-to-wall with Cubby fans. Maybe they all hate Facebook. ---
**Author:** ![russian\_heel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f05b48/32.png) [@russian\_heel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/russian_heel)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2015, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-pro-teams-do-alaskans-puerto-ricans-and-hawaiians-support/736636/9 "2015-11-05T06:13:50Z")
In Chicago White Sox nation is confined to South Side Chicago while the rest of the area appears to be Cubs fans. ---
**Author:** ![bytheway](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/df705f/32.png) [@bytheway](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bytheway)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2015, 7:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-pro-teams-do-alaskans-puerto-ricans-and-hawaiians-support/736636/10 "2015-11-05T07:04:42Z")
When I was growing up in Hawaii we got the Dodgers and Giants on the radio, so there’s a lot of fans of those teams. For myself, when I started watching sports on tv in the '70s the Rams, Royals and Sonics were good so that’s who I started following and have continued to follow to this very day, no matter how lousy they were or what cities they moved to. ---
**Author:** ![racer72](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/racer72/32/3075_2.png) [@racer72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racer72)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2015, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-pro-teams-do-alaskans-puerto-ricans-and-hawaiians-support/736636/11 "2015-11-05T15:55:17Z")
Wore my Seahawks championship hoodie a number of times while in Alaska last year. Got lots of thumbs up from the locals. ---
**Author:** ![Lamar\_Mundane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85f322/32.png) [@Lamar\_Mundane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamar_Mundane)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2015, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-pro-teams-do-alaskans-puerto-ricans-and-hawaiians-support/736636/12 "2015-11-05T17:36:26Z")
> [@Freddy\_the\_Pig](#): > > I also notice that Cook County is colored White Sox on the facebook map. This astonishes me since Cook County includes the near-north and northwest suburbs that are packed wall-to-wall with Cubby fans. Maybe they all hate Facebook. Cubs fans still use MySpace. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2015, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-pro-teams-do-alaskans-puerto-ricans-and-hawaiians-support/736636/13 "2015-11-05T20:57:19Z")
> [@racer72](#): > > Wore my Seahawks championship hoodie a number of times while in Alaska last year. Got lots of thumbs up from the locals. On the last couple of seasons of Deadliest Catch one of the crab seasons happened during the Super Bowl and they were all going crazy over the Seahawks. Some of the ships are based out of Washington so that’s not surprising but a lot of the crew are Alaskans. ---
**Author:** ![Suburban\_Plankton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suburban_plankton/32/219_2.png) [@Suburban\_Plankton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suburban_Plankton)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2015, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-pro-teams-do-alaskans-puerto-ricans-and-hawaiians-support/736636/14 "2015-11-05T22:12:57Z")
> [@RickJay](#): > > According to one source I found that actually broke it down by county, the Oakland A’s have the rather unenviable distinction of being the only MLB team that is not the favourite team in ANY county, anywhere, even the one they play in. (The map also does not cite the Blue Jays, but only because it doesn’t include Canada, where the Blue Jays are the most popular almost everywhere.) I believe that the Mets are also shut out, being overshadows by their pinstriped friends up in the Bronx. > [@Ponch8](#): > > There seems to be a county in Oklahoma full of diehard Pirates fans. I wonder if that county is so sparsely populated that only one person answered the survey. That would be Dewey County, wherein you will find the town of Taloga (population 309), the very proud hometown of Pirates infielder Jordy Mercer. ---
**Author:** ![Geek\_Mecha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ecae2f/32.png) [@Geek\_Mecha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Geek_Mecha)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2015, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-pro-teams-do-alaskans-puerto-ricans-and-hawaiians-support/736636/15 "2015-11-11T21:07:42Z")
People in Hawaii tend to support either the teams they’re exposed to the most, or the ones with Hawaii players on them. So the Tennessee Titans are getting some love right now. ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2015, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-pro-teams-do-alaskans-puerto-ricans-and-hawaiians-support/736636/16 "2015-11-12T01:01:53Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > On the last couple of seasons of Deadliest Catch one of the crab seasons happened during the Super Bowl and they were all going crazy over the Seahawks. Some of the ships are based out of Washington so that’s not surprising but a lot of the crew are Alaskans. The Seahawk and the Mariner games are also heard on radio affiliates in Alaska so both clubs obviously include the state in their markets. On a side note, the Seahawks and Mariners also have some BC stations among their affiliates. ---
**Author:** ![Peremensoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ce7236/32.png) [@Peremensoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peremensoe)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2015, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-pro-teams-do-alaskans-puerto-ricans-and-hawaiians-support/736636/17 "2015-11-12T01:58:24Z")
> [@russian\_heel](#): > > In Chicago White Sox nation is confined to South Side Chicago while the rest of the area appears to be Cubs fans. The White Sox get a plurality not only in Cook County, but also Will and Kankakee Counties, and Lake County, Indiana.