Everyone I know from and everything I know about Wisconsin checks out here.
lol Mormons. As @Yanqui_UXO pointed out this is based on self reported data so I bet there's a lot of people lying there.
Alchohol culture. We have more bars than churches and grocery stores.
The Red Letter Media guys REALLY skew the average. Mike alone puts the whole state up 2%.
Since, according to the infographic, this is self-reported, could the city/state just be the most honest ones in the country? :soviet-hmm:
It's entirely possible (do we seriously not have a joe rogan emote?)
:frog-no-pretext: gay frogs have been arming up at least
edit: that was an alex jones reference, idk why, but what's done is done
People there are honestly proud of how much they drink, while other states might have people lying about how little they drink the Wisconsinites are probably honest if not even exaggerating. But they do drink a lot. There are about as many bars in Wisconsin as there are in California despite how many fewer people there are.
The state was early on mostly settled by immigrants from Germany, Belgium etc and Milwaukee became a huge brewing city, especially after the Chicago fire took out Chicago's brewing industry. Pabst, Schlitz, Miller and others were major parts of the city/state's economy.
as many bars in Wisconsin as there are in California
DAMN. There are a LOT of bars in California lol. Like they're like fuckin Starbucks here. There are bars across the street from bars and not even just in the major commercial areas you'd expect there to be that many.
Yeah haha I live in California also and yes there are tons of bars. But per capita the states with the most bars are supposedly North Dakota, Montana and then Wisconsin.
Yeah North Dakota is #1. The sad part is that's probably due to the number of reservations there. One of my best friends and my stepdad both grew up on reservations and the number of family members and friends they both told me they lost to alcoholism is fucking staggering.
Yes, alcohol was and is absolutely pushed on indigenous people as a manner of subjugation, like crack was pushed in black neighborhoods and opium was pushed on China. It's really tragic.
I'm surprised the Bible Belt is as dry as it is.
Not Utah though, that tracks.
Is Utah the anti-Wisconsin?
As I said in another comment since it's all self-reported data I am highly suspicious of those being accurate numbers.
Surprising as it is, people can make it through their lives without alcohol and not miss it one bit. Particularly when their culture frowns on it.
Funny, that's the Texas city with the most non-Texans in it. It went from being a sleepy college town of 400,000, of which 50,000 were the University of Texas and another 50,000 the state employees, to a megalopolis of what, 1.2 million last I checked? Austinites like to fuck, but not that much.
I hear today they have "keep Austin weird" bumper stickers. You know, back when I lived in Austin, I never saw one. You know why? We didn't need 'em.
lol yeah the darkest spot in california happens to be (I think) where a famous "party college" is.
Nah chico is in butte which is 2 counties southwest of Lassen, the darker one. I don't think anything is in lassen. Just some country folk who like to party I guess.
That Oklahoma is a fucking LIE. I'd like to see how they figured this one out (like how they phrase the question)
Okay, something was up with how they polled West Virginia.
I live there and motherfucking West Virginians BE DRINKING.
