The Royals are making a push to turn Missouri from a red state to blue.
This, however, has nothing to do with politics; it’s about baseball. The state of Missouri long has been dominated by Cardinals fans. But the tide is turning with two World Series appearances and one championship by the Royals in the last two years.
Slowly.
In 2014, The New York Times made a wonderful interactive map of baseball fandom across the United States broken down by ZIP code. The Times used aggregated data provided by Facebook — that is, users who “like” a team.