Posted on 11/19/2007 3:03:11 PM PST by dynachrome
New Year's Day 1916 was rough for Colorado residents looking for a little hair of the dog. On that Saturday, the state stopped all liquor sales, predating Prohibition by 4 years. Today, Colo-rado once again leads the nation in its attitude toward alcohol -- but now, the mandate seems to be "drink till you drop." In our second ranking of urban inebriation, Aurora comes in 82nd, Colorado Springs finishes 98th, and, once again, Denver is Most Dangerously Drunk.
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There I was ... binge-drinking before it was fashionable.
“Dry” Lubbock, Texas is the 8th worst.
(Liquor stores are relegated out Lubbock to the county.)
Tells you something about prohibition.
I’m assuming this is only for the US...if we were to do a study like this worldwide, I’d bet Moscow or some Russian city would take the cake for “Drunkest City.”
Even on the metros they store like 50 bottles of vodka underneath the seats...just in case...
It surprises me that Colorado Springs rates so highly.
I have heard from people that the city has a strong strain of Christian conservative influence.
One would assume that this group would be very tee-totalling and advocate that stance in public life too.
And Baltimore, a lowly 45.
Sheesh.
I would have thought Washington would have ranked pretty high since Congress appears to be drunk half the time.
Of course being a mile high, the thin air has a tendency to bring on drunkenness much quicker. ; )
I think it tells you more about Texas Tech University.
I wonder if the big US Army and USAF bases contribute to that? Not a slam on the military but I know that when I was stationed at Ft Campbell we certainly contributed to the number of drinkers in Clarksville TN. We were young, invincible, had a little money, and were finally 21 (or close to it)
I figured the drunkest city would be whatever city ted Kennedy is currently slouching in.
Coors
They would have except in Washington it isn't called drunkenness, it's called doing the peoples business.
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Not really, but Austin’s ranking at No. 6th worst, with a much larger general population of non-students than Tech to non-tech tells a lot.
Anyway, college students don’t hang around long enough to get cirrosis (one of the factors).
Buffalo NY makes number 3....know why?
Almost nothing going on in the town, except for narrow bands of urbania and technology.
Too bad, I really like Buffalo when viewed from Lake Erie.
Downtown Buffalo looks like a Sci Fi setting, at 9 PM.
Nobody, not even drunks venture into the void.
Once known for more Bars than Churches, we now merit #3 in sobriety......how far we have fallen.
Happy Hour begins here at 7 am
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Being a former resident of Michigan’s Upper peninsula, I can only state that they excluded places like Marquette and Houghton from this because they are on double secret probation.
Buffalo is the 3rd MOST sober? I’m guessing this doesn’t figure in crack use.
The men who dug the Erie canal are spinning in their graves. I’m having a beer in Williamsville.
“4. Jackson, MS A”
The only reason that is #4 is because the crackheads will get you before the drunks, I guess.
Seriously, based on the cities am very familiar with, I call BS on this whole list. Baton Rouge at #25 with a B+?? Again, maybe the crackheads get to you before the drunks, and there are PLENTY of drunks in BR. Memphis at # 20? This list is someone’s idea of a joke.
Anywhere north of Grand Rapids was major booze country.
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