Map Shows The Drunkest States In America
Earlier, we showed you the drunkest countries in the world, wherein the United States ranked somewhere in the upper middle. We’re in the Goldilocks zone of alcoholism–enough that it’s fun, not so much that it’s depressing (cough, Russia, cough). But how do these United States measure up individually? The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism has the answer in its annual surveillance report, which measures the following:
…they break down “apparent” per capita alcohol consumption as well as which types of tipple are trending. Numbers are based on sales figures, and represent ages 14 and up.
Since the NIAAA is most concerned with how much actual alcohol we’re consuming, they distill the data to gallons of pure ethanol.
According to Healthy People 2020, the absolute maximum amount a person can consume and still be considered healthy is 2.1 gallons per year. The United States averages 2.33. I’m proud of you, guys.
Here’s the map:
And here are the state-by-state rankings:
1. New Hampshire 4.65
2. Dist. of Columbia 3.89
3. Delaware 3.59
4. North Dakota 3.42
5. Nevada 3.27
6. Wisconsin 3
7. Montana 2.96
8. Vermont 2.92
9. Alaska 2.82
10. Colorado 2.76
11. Idaho 2.76
12. South Dakota 2.76
13. Florida 2.72
14. Rhode Island 2.72
15. Minnesota 2.7
16. Wyoming 2.67
17. Maine 2.65
18. Oregon 2.65
19. Louisiana 2.6
20. Massachusetts 2.57
21. Hawaii 2.54
22. Arizona 2.43
23. Missouri 2.42
24. Connecticut 2.39
25. Iowa 2.39
26. New Jersey 2.39
27. Illinois 2.36
28. New Mexico 2.36
29. California 2.35
30. South Carolina 2.33
31. Nebraska 2.32
32. Michigan 2.29
33. Texas 2.28
34. Pennsylvania 2.26
35. Washington 2.25
36. Maryland 2.21
37. Mississippi 2.2
38. New York 2.17
39. Virginia 2.13
40. North Carolina 2.05
41. Ohio 2.03
42. Alabama 2
43. Tennessee 2
44. Georgia 1.99
45. Indiana 1.97
46. Kansas 1.95
47. Oklahoma 1.94
48. Kentucky 1.87
49. Arkansas 1.81
50. West Virginia 1.81
51. Utah 1.37
Dear God, New Hampshire. What are you people doing up there? While the rest of us were piddling around with our light beers and whiskey diets, the people of New Hampshire were throwing power hours with mason jars full of moonshine. I like to imagine it was with a live folk band that switched up fiddle-heavy songs every minute. Excuse me while I start buying up livers on the black market and move to New Hampshire. It’s also no surprise that Utah pulls up the rear; however, the state does rank first in warm glass of milk consumption (probably).
All in all, the results are pretty impressive. Thirty-eight states, along with the District of Columbia, all rated above the “healthy” average. Party in the USA.
[via Esquire]
Bacon likes drinking “sex on the beach”
10 years ago at 1:48 pmI’m more of a pomegranate daiquiri man.
10 years ago at 1:52 pmI bet you liked Gayzing too
10 years ago at 12:16 amEat a dick, your social commentary is piss poor at best
10 years ago at 5:38 pmSimmer down there boy, you might want to take the next couple of plays out
10 years ago at 5:43 pm
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10 years ago at 1:48 pmI can’t help but notice the color designer of this map has a sense of humor.
10 years ago at 1:48 pmIf I had to live in New Hampshire I would be constantly drunk too
10 years ago at 1:50 pmYeah, it does suck to live a state with the motto “live free or die”.
10 years ago at 2:34 pmI guess they didn’t consider pledge-ship in this study.
10 years ago at 1:58 pmPledge for life? Well go get me some fucking breakfast.
10 years ago at 6:17 amHey Bacon, is everyone from Missouri that ugly and pale or are you just an unoutstanding outlier?
10 years ago at 1:58 pmNation’s capital coming in second. Well done
10 years ago at 2:06 pmI love how no one is pointing out that the north out drinks the south.
10 years ago at 2:14 pmb b b but muh southern superiority
10 years ago at 2:52 pmThat’s because in the south we don’t sit inside for half the year due to snow.
10 years ago at 3:17 pmCan you not drink outside in the south? Your argument doesn’t make sense.
10 years ago at 6:47 pmwe’re southerners. we dont need arguments to prove our superiority
10 years ago at 9:30 pmMy arguments is that Northerners (I.e. Those above the Mason-Dixon line) are snowed in for the majority of the year. Therefore you drink more. In fact this is less of an agreement and more of cheeky agreement of the stated facts. Y’all can keep your high ABC’s and lonely cold winters.
10 years ago at 9:58 amHe’s saying its because you’re all depressed because of the shitty weather. His argument makes perfect sense if you’re not half-retarded
10 years ago at 9:59 amI know what he meant dipshit. It’s still a shitty argument. I drink just as much, if not more, when it’s warm out. But you, being from somewhere warm, would OBVIOUSLY know more about cold weather drinking habits, right?
10 years ago at 3:43 pmNot necessarily true. Just by looking at the colors you can see the Deep South drinks as much or more than New England.
10 years ago at 3:36 pmAre you fucking slow? Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, Arkansas, Tennessee are all ranked in the bottom ten. New Hampshire, Delaware, Vermont and the District of Columbia are all in the top ten. Can you even read a fucking map?
10 years ago at 11:55 amI’d drink more too if I had to live in the north. Even more if I was out on the west coast and had to deal with all those goddamn hipsters.
10 years ago at 10:30 pmBeing from Alabama, you haven’t experienced a whole lot, I guarantee you that. Your opinion on the rest of the country holds no weight. You’ve never been to a northern city and you’ve never met a California hipster. RTR gayboy.
10 years ago at 10:41 pmI have in fact been to many cities in the north and the west coast, nice try though
10 years ago at 10:43 pmtake it easy on that blue shit man
10 years ago at 6:38 pmThat’s because we don’t need to justify how retarded this maps is.
10 years ago at 12:31 amI’m embarrassed to say I live in the southeast now
10 years ago at 2:16 pmNorth out drinks the south because were part of the Bible Belt
10 years ago at 2:26 pm