We're #1!! Where does your state rank?

TheEnforcer · 07-06-2008

You know how I always talk about how Wisconsin is full of drunks and such welll... a state newspaper looked at 10 different key factors and ranked all 50 states. Guess who was #1. Where does your state rank?

Interactive map that shows where your state ranks in terms of drinking.

http://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/...399990694/1979

http://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/...3/0/specials01

Analysis ranks state No. 1 for alcohol's impact on lives

Federal revenue agent Frank Buckley arrived in 1929 to document Prohibition enforcement in Wisconsin. He found more tolerance for drinking than for Prohibition.

"Wisconsin," he wrote in his report to Washington, "is commonly regarded as a Gibraltar of the Wets — sort of a Utopia where everyone drinks their fill and John Barleycorn still holds forth in splendor."

Eighty years later, Wisconsin's reputation is intact. Alcohol goes hand-in-hand with tailgating, snowmobiling, deer hunting, kids' baseball games and even church functions.

"I've been drunker here than any place else I've been in my life," comedian Lewis Black told an audience in Madison. "And remember this: You are not — you are not — alcoholics. You, and my hat is off, are professionals."

But Wisconsin's legendary propensity for imbibing was grounded in a loose collection of statistics and anecdotes — until now.

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TheEnforcer Scored VIP to Anton's Piss Tank Want to see your own Advertising Here! Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 8,781	We're #1!! Where does your state rank? You know how I always talk about how Wisconsin is full of drunks and such welll... a state newspaper looked at 10 different key factors and ranked all 50 states. Guess who was #1. Where does your state rank? Interactive map that shows where your state ranks in terms of drinking. http://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/...399990694/1979 http://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/...3/0/specials01 Analysis ranks state No. 1 for alcohol's impact on lives Federal revenue agent Frank Buckley arrived in 1929 to document Prohibition enforcement in Wisconsin. He found more tolerance for drinking than for Prohibition. "Wisconsin," he wrote in his report to Washington, "is commonly regarded as a Gibraltar of the Wets — sort of a Utopia where everyone drinks their fill and John Barleycorn still holds forth in splendor." Eighty years later, Wisconsin's reputation is intact. Alcohol goes hand-in-hand with tailgating, snowmobiling, deer hunting, kids' baseball games and even church functions. "I've been drunker here than any place else I've been in my life," comedian Lewis Black told an audience in Madison. "And remember this: You are not — you are not — alcoholics. You, and my hat is off, are professionals." But Wisconsin's legendary propensity for imbibing was grounded in a loose collection of statistics and anecdotes — until now.