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Message: [QUOTE="Guapo, post: 2789584, member: 8179"] I think you'd be surprised by how rural the area around UConn is. My wife, who is from rural Georgia, was shocked by how isolated Storrs is. Anyway, I was going to wax poetic about the role of UConn basketball in the state and why it's such a big deal but this video does a good job of saying what I would say. Basically, for being such a small state, the variations in life style are immense. The experience of growing up as an Italian kid in the South End of Hartford varies greatly from growing up a Swamp Yankee on a farm somewhere in Windham County. On top of all that, there's the overarching cultural split between the part of the state that's "more New York" and the part that's solidly New England. UConn basketball is the sole unifying thread in the state. Without it, the state only exists as a place for people to drive through on their way to Boston. [MEDIA=youtube]4lpK7ttimO8[/MEDIA] [/QUOTE]