A few months ago, we sent out a message on Twitter for any Atlanta United fans who followed the team from afar -- afar hereby deemed “Not the South” or at least “Really far away from Atlanta” -- to respond and tell us their story. Some had recently moved from Atlanta, some began following the team based on their connections to Atlanta, some genuinely asked if Virginia counted as the South and whooooo boy did y’all miss some things in history class. The larger point here though is this: There were too damn many of y’all.
Instead of the handful of responses we expected, messages poured in from.