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    [OC] Drinking by state, 1970-2022

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    3. KWNewyear on

      I realize the per-capita pushes things around, but Wisconsin is not nearly as red as I thought it would be.

    8. Torvaun on

      OK, I understand Nevada, a state with a low population and Las Vegas, but what is going on in Delaware and New Hampshire?

    10. TheCrazedGamer_1 on

      You say in your comment that its alcohol consumption but the graphic says its just alcohol sales. I’m nearly certain its the latter considering NH’s position (state-owned liquor stores means cheap alcohol which people come in from out of state to buy)

    12. ttvBOBIVLAVALORD on

      Bloody hell another one of these posts without state names. Like come on I live in the UK and don’t give a shit about memorising them but when I see cool stuff like this they get ruined because I don’t know which state is which.

    13. principleofinaction on

      Ummm per how big of a chunk of population exactly?

      70 gallons per year would be some ~5 days to a gallon so ~4 litres of ethnol, so a bit under a liter/day. So taking 40% as the alc vol, and a typical bottle being some 0.7L, this is more than 2 bottle of vodka per person per day. Something is off.

    14. P4ULUS on

      This is gallons sold. Not the same as consumption per person in the state.

      Vegas is a vacation destination and New Hampshire is a tax haven for alcohol so people buy alcohol there and drive back to their state

    15. gtbeam3r on

      NH is how you lie with data. The reason NH is so red is that liquor is state controlled, less expensive and they have liquor stores as rest areas on the highway. Nh is a small state and a lot of it is purchased in NH but consumed in other states as people travel to or through, mainly Massachusetts.

    16. NegativeBee on

      New Hampshire has state-run liquor stores on practically every road into the state and there’s no sales tax or liquor tax.

    18. Red_Icnivad on

      It’s worth noting that Nevada has a huge tourism industry, especially when compared to their population, and even more so when that tourism focus is on drinking/partying. Would be interesting to see the drinking habits of only locals by state, too

    19. SpyRollPower on

      lol I’m not kidding, my state literally didn’t change until the year I reached drinking age, and then it started getting more red. Glad I quit

    23. curious-but-spurious on

      Heads up: This would look a lot better using the Cartographic Boundary data from Census, instead of the TIGER/Line.

    25. lakeland_nz on

      The big issue with this is tourism.

      Maybe… start with the census data and then assume the effect of tourism is doubled (since every tourist in a state is a person out of another).

    30. effortornot7787 on

      too bad none of these types of ‘data’ controls for things like residency of consumption. as presented it is mostly meaningless

    33. RubyReign on

      Interesting how it started going down when Obama was elected, then it got higher than ever when Trump was elected.

    34. BobTheFrogMan on

      The IS population has grown about 122 million people since 1974… is this taking that into account? Probably not

    35. _heatmoon_ on

      Lots of people are quick to point out New Hampshires buyers from other states. While that surely has some level of contribution it’s not nearly as much as folks think. The northern borders are pretty sparsely populated and even the borders with Massachusetts are rural as you get west of Nashua. There is a ton of drinking in New Hampshire. I grew up there. Left in my early 20s. Started drinking around 12. Been sober for 8 years now. I would say around a third of the people I grew up with were at least problem drinkers.