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Jefferson County is Red

Never let anyone from the other side tell you otherwise.

In a blog post about the recent Pitino/Cal war of words, Eric Crawford revisits the numbers from the largest-ever survey of sports fans in the state that the C-J undertook a few years ago. Here's the crucial graphic:

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"There are just as many Kentucky fans as Louisville fans in your own city" is simply a lie. You'd think the fact that they can never sell out the one game a year they play in the city would be evidence enough, but sometimes (most times) it takes pictures to drive the point home.