Is the spike at the end partially attributed to Covid?
I realize the per-capita pushes things around, but Wisconsin is not nearly as red as I thought it would be.
Live free, or die of cirrhosis
Nevada and Utah seem like twins with opposite personalities
Is you from New Hampshire or is you a BITCH?
Surprised how low it was and surprised how low it still is. I call bullshit
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OK, I understand Nevada, a state with a low population and Las Vegas, but what is going on in Delaware and New Hampshire?
This is liquor sales, not consumption.
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)
Everyone drank a lot more during the Trump administration.
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.
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.
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
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.
New Hampshire has state-run liquor stores on practically every road into the state and there’s no sales tax or liquor tax.
Would love to see AK on here
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
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
![[OC] Drinking by state, 1970-2022](https://www.europesays.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/ta9y66en5icf1-1080x1024.gif)
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Tools: Matplotlib, geopandas
Data source: Per capita alcohol consumption, National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. Available at [https://www.niaaa.nih.gov/sites/default/files/pcyr1970-2022.txt](https://www.niaaa.nih.gov/sites/default/files/pcyr1970-2022.txt)
Is the spike at the end partially attributed to Covid?
I realize the per-capita pushes things around, but Wisconsin is not nearly as red as I thought it would be.
Live free, or die of cirrhosis
Nevada and Utah seem like twins with opposite personalities
Is you from New Hampshire or is you a BITCH?
Surprised how low it was and surprised how low it still is. I call bullshit
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OK, I understand Nevada, a state with a low population and Las Vegas, but what is going on in Delaware and New Hampshire?
This is liquor sales, not consumption.
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)
Everyone drank a lot more during the Trump administration.
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.
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.
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
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.
New Hampshire has state-run liquor stores on practically every road into the state and there’s no sales tax or liquor tax.
Would love to see AK on here
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
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
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