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Originally posted by laplageauxfolles:

Richland, Lexington, Sumter, Newberry = 684k

With this in mind we would expect the Greenville metropolitan area to produce around 1.5x as many State Cup victories as the Charleston area given exactly equal club organizational skills (and roughly the same differential for metro Columbia).

The fact that the upstate has a lot more kids to draw upon to form their upper echelon teams.
lpaf
If you were to add the Aiken SC/Augusta GA metropolitan area to the Columbia metro area (remember Aiken/North Augusta/Augusta is only 45 minutes to an hour away) then that Metropolitan area is boosted by about 477K, taking it to well over the demographics of the Greenville/Spartanburg area - up to over 1,161K. So, I think the fact is that the upstate area is not better demographically, just better organized. I would propose that if the Columbia area ever got their act together with the Aiken/North Augusta/Augusta area they would dominate the state. Not only that - I think that there would be more good SC teams out there that could do well in the premier league, other than the Aiken Fire.