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Originally Posted by Crawford
A lot of those Southeast cities are bad professional sports towns, though. The urban Southeast is heavily transient, meaning sports allegiances don't correlate with place of residence, and college football is so dominant.
And I think baseball would have particular issues, given that football is bigger locally, Southeast summers are hot, humid and very wet, and baseball tends to be rooted in intergenerational traditions. It doesn't really fit modern sprawl living.
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Well Atlanta of all places just built a new baseball stadium that is completely outdoors. I think Raleigh and Nashville would be just fine weather wise.
The South has been much more transient than the North, but so is the West. And places like Charlotte and Raleigh are and have been growing so quickly for so long they have plenty large enough "local" bases these days. Nashville is more of a stretch, but if Las Vegas can be successful, so can Nashville.