What is it about soccer that makes it (in America) the nearly exclusive domain of liberal sports fans?
Completely untrue. Where are these mythical "liberal sports fans"??? I've yet to meet one. Do they hold conventions somewhere? Do they have a website? A newsletter? Do they hang out in bars somewhere and plot their dastardly conspiracy theories?
People who believe there is some kind of massive liberal conspiracy to foist soccer on the American public are seriously in danger of becoming unhinged, if they are not unhinged already. You people need psychological help.
Hmmmm. Let me see. What could it possibly be? Perhaps it is that soccer is not-american.
That's a lie, but it's a commonly believed lie. The first college football games in the USA were soccer games. The oldest football club (Oneida Football Club, of Boston, est. 1862) in the USA played soccer. The US Soccer Federation is the successor to the original American Football Association, established in 1885. Baseball's National League briefly experimented with a football(soccer) league during its off season in the late 19th century. And even by the early 20th century sports writers in American papers still referred to soccer as football or association football. Soccer is as "American" as gridiron football; in fact, more so.
But then Americans are dreadfully ignorant of their own history. For instance, 99% of American sports fans do not know that prior to the mid-19th century, cricket was the most popular ball game in the USA, not baseball, and that the early pro baseball players were originally pro cricket players. They also don't know that our Founding Fathers played cricket, too. Does that make our Founding Fathers "Un-American", too?
After all, they played that pansy English game of cricket; why, they must be traitors! Un-American! Un-American! Someone call the cops!