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5 minutes ago, Dan Gilmore said:

What’s the deal with Utah? We know they’re not bring in Scotch and Guinesss.

Maybe they are big fans of haggis and mushy peas.

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Here's an even better one: America’s Drunkest & Driest Counties Based On Excessive Drinking. Are buying Wisconsin?

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The map above shows the drunkest and driest US counties based on the share of excessive drinkers.

The drunkest is Gallatin, MT where 26.8% of people are excessive drinkers.

And the driest is Utah, UT where only 9.04% of people are excessive drinkers.

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Gallatin is the northern gateway to Yellowstone Nat Park. Gorgeous country but I can imagine winters can be brutal. I wonder how many of those surveyed are tourists

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15 hours ago, CMRivdogs said:

Gallatin is the northern gateway to Yellowstone Nat Park. Gorgeous country but I can imagine winters can be brutal. I wonder how many of those surveyed are tourists

Native Americans are a larger percentage of the pop in the West. 

Wisconsin and some areas of Vermont show the correlation and direct causality between excessive cheese eating and alcoholism. 

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18 hours ago, chasfh said:

Here's an even better one: America’s Drunkest & Driest Counties Based On Excessive Drinking. Are buying Wisconsin?

image.thumb.png.0fdb70d32125c05c3416cd9c8eadc54b.png

The map above shows the drunkest and driest US counties based on the share of excessive drinkers.

The drunkest is Gallatin, MT where 26.8% of people are excessive drinkers.

And the driest is Utah, UT where only 9.04% of people are excessive drinkers.

Green is the driest? I wouldn't have expected Las Vegas to be green. 

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31 minutes ago, Edman85 said:

Your title says median, the graph says average. Which is it?

I copied the headline which says median, so, who knows. It's probably median, though, which is typically how income is reported.

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On 8/3/2025 at 3:05 PM, chasfh said:

Here's an even better one: America’s Drunkest & Driest Counties Based On Excessive Drinking. Are buying Wisconsin?

image.thumb.png.0fdb70d32125c05c3416cd9c8eadc54b.png

The map above shows the drunkest and driest US counties based on the share of excessive drinkers.

The drunkest is Gallatin, MT where 26.8% of people are excessive drinkers.

And the driest is Utah, UT where only 9.04% of people are excessive drinkers.

Some of the differences are policy related between states, but whenever you see such hard cutoffs between states, some of that has to be differences in data collection / lack of normalization.

I'm not convinced that Walworth County, Wisconsin is orders of magnitude more drunk than McHenry County, Illinois, despite the two sharing a pretty decent amount of border with one another.

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16 hours ago, chasfh said:

I copied the headline which says median, so, who knows. It's probably median, though, which is typically how income is reported.

I would guess median also just because the ranges seem too small to be averages for the ritzy parts of London where a few billionaires would tend to skew averages strongly.

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51 minutes ago, gehringer_2 said:

I would guess median also just because the ranges seem too small to be averages for the ritzy parts of London where a few billionaires would tend to skew averages strongly.

Maybe it's because the London billionaires make their money in rubles and not pounds ...

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4 hours ago, gehringer_2 said:

I would guess median also just because the ranges seem too small to be averages for the ritzy parts of London where a few billionaires would tend to skew averages strongly.

The amount of residual wealth in southern England is silly.  The empire was very nice to a lot of people.

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