OT: Drunkest Counties

Wisconsin is so disappointed in Burnett County...the only one that wasn't on the drunken leaderboard (on the border with MN)

I see a few missing drunk areas.

Wisconsin shouldn’t be included because they’re professionals and everyone else is an amateur when it comes to abusing alcohol.

When Wisconsin drunks graduate college and move to Colorado...

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Having grown up in ND, yeah, I can see some of those counties. Also seems like college towns definitely skew the map, except for Wisconsin. Yikes

kmillard wrote:
I see a few missing drunk areas.

I guarantee you this has been filtered in some sorts.  There are a few counties/areas of SD that are notorious for alcoholism that reports very low.

Definitely the Montana college towns...amen to that.
Having lived back and forth on the border of Michigan's UP and Northern Wisconsin, I suspect the reason that the border county is not red is because most of the citizenry cross the border to Hurley, Wisconsin, where drinking is an art form. Back in the 1920's there were over 120 liquor licenses in a four block stretch of their little downtown, at the height of the iron mining era.

JimmyinSD wrote:

I guarantee you this has been filtered in some sorts.  There are a few counties/areas of SD that are notorious for alcoholism that reports very low.

Yea.  I don't think the tribes are picked up in these numbers.

I spent 20 years living in a purple county in Wisconsin but I've moved up now to a relatively sober dark red one.

More info on this...
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While Wisconsin is the booziest state in America, the booziest county designation belongs to an area in Montana. Using the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's categorization of excessive drinking and data from County Health Rankings And Roadmaps, IntoxiStates.com created an interactive map showing a county-wide breakdown of American drinking habits. America's booziest county is Gallatin County in Montana, where over a quarter (26.8 percent) of residents are excessive drinkers. 
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Seems a little odd to me. This is Gallatan County. It's a stone's throw from where River Runs Through it was Filmed. I don't know what a drunk county looks like but this isn't what I would think of. Unless it's all about the college kids in Bozeman. 

Damn...I'm gonna have to up my imbibing to get King County, WA, into contention.

I'll do my level damnedest!

MaroonBells wrote:
More info on this... [i]_____[/i] [i]While Wisconsin is the booziest state in America, the booziest county designation belongs to an area in Montana. Using the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's categorization of excessive drinking and data from County Health Rankings And Roadmaps, IntoxiStates.com created an interactive map showing a county-wide breakdown of American drinking habits. [/i][i][b]America's booziest county is Gallatin County in Montana, where over a quarter (26.8 percent) of residents are excessive drinkers. [/b][/i] _____ Seems a little odd to me. This is Gallatan County. It's a stone's throw from where River Runs Through it was Filmed. I don't know what a drunk county looks like but this isn't what I would think of. Unless it's all about the college kids in Bozeman.  [img]https://peakvisor.com/photo/Gallatin-County-Montana.jpg[/img]

Yeah, I don't think how beautiful the geography is has much to do with alcohol consumption. My guess is they've compared alcohol sales vs county population to get these numbers, so if you have 15 hardcore alcoholics in a small county, those numbers will be skewed, lol. You see that one green county in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan? That is one of the least populated, most stunning counties geographically in the country.