Good point. Wisconsin is known to drive people to drink. https://wisconsinwatch....

tivert · 2024-07-17T14:20:57 1721226057

> Good point. Wisconsin is known to drive people to drink.

I think you're misinterpreting that article. It's purely an observation that Wisconsinites self-reported more of what some team running a survey classified as "excessive drinking, there's nothing about causes.

I'm not from Wisconsin, but I know quote a lot of people who are, and I think the reason they drink so much is cultural: they have a much more relaxed attitude towards alcohol consumption, generally (e.g. aunts letting nephews/nieces drink at some family get-together). It's not so much they're "driven" to drink, they seem to enjoy it and not attach so much stigma to it.

mattpallissard · 2024-07-17T19:24:11 1721244251

Midwesterner here, this tracks. WI takes the cake but it also holds true for MN, MI, and IL. Hard working, hard drinking, good timing folks.

readthenotes1 · 2024-07-17T14:56:52 1721228212

That would hold if it weren't for the reported stat that the smarter you are in Wisconsin in the late 1950s, the more you drink.