Can booze fix the American South's problems?

[Laerod]

That's largely incompatible with reality, in particular the attribution of war guilt on the unjustly attacked Union.

Hey, hey, hey... The South stayed in the South, it was the Union that came down here, surrounding Fort Sumter. They could have easily taken it back. It was a military strategy and also a political one (albeit a pretty smart one) to just wait and force Fort Sumter to fire first.

What the hell are you even talking about?

[Anglo-California]

Meh. California's drinking culture isn't all that great. It's a bunch of pseudo-European middle-aged people visiting wineries, a bunch of drunk Mexicans drinking shitty imported beer, and a bunch of drunk Americans drinking shitty domestic beer. Oh, and the hipsters who smugly drink from their microbreweries, which I'll admit, are pretty good.

[Immoren]

Meh. California's drinking culture isn't all that great. It's a bunch of pseudo-European middle-aged people visiting wineries, a bunch of drunk Mexicans drinking shitty imported beer, and a bunch of drunk Americans drinking shitty domestic beer. Oh, and the hipsters who smugly drink from their microbreweries, which I'll admit, are pretty good.

So what'd sort of drinkinh culture you'd prefer?

[Anglo-California]

Meh. California's drinking culture isn't all that great. It's a bunch of pseudo-European middle-aged people visiting wineries, a bunch of drunk Mexicans drinking shitty imported beer, and a bunch of drunk Americans drinking shitty domestic beer. Oh, and the hipsters who smugly drink from their microbreweries, which I'll admit, are pretty good.

So what'd sort of drinkinh culture you'd prefer?

The drinking culture of Donald Draper. Nothing wrong with suits, hard liquor, and a little inappropriate touchy-touchy in the office.

In all seriousness, I'm split down the middle between the newer, hipster one and the larger, American one.

I drink the microbrewed beers but I desperately search for any American drinking songs and traditional drinking etiquette this country may have had.

[Soldati Senza Confini]

Meh. California's drinking culture isn't all that great. It's a bunch of pseudo-European middle-aged people visiting wineries, a bunch of drunk Mexicans drinking shitty imported beer, and a bunch of drunk Americans drinking shitty domestic beer. Oh, and the hipsters who smugly drink from their microbreweries, which I'll admit, are pretty good.

Eh, I dunno.

Dos Equis with a wedge of lemon and some salt in tastes pretty good.

[Soldati Senza Confini]

Meh. California's drinking culture isn't all that great. It's a bunch of pseudo-European middle-aged people visiting wineries, a bunch of drunk Mexicans drinking shitty imported beer, and a bunch of drunk Americans drinking shitty domestic beer. Oh, and the hipsters who smugly drink from their microbreweries, which I'll admit, are pretty good.

Eh, I dunno.

Dos Equis with a wedge of lemon and some salt in tastes pretty good.

[The Grey Wolf]

So this mean whenever I call a Northerner a "dirty alcoholic pig," I'm actually entirely justified?

[Glorious Freedonia]

Ummm the Baptists throw off the numbers a lot perhaps?

[Totus Plebeium]

It looks like Louisiana and Florida is the party down south eh?

[Greed and Death]

Ummm the Baptists throw off the numbers a lot perhaps?

Step brother's wedding when I was 17, I was looking for my allowed 2-3 glasses of wine.
He was marrying a Baptist.

[Jamjai]

no, it doesn't even surprises me that north and west drink more than the south

I don't how that even how that would even work

[The Nuclear Fist]

The South always struck me as a beer-and-whiskey kinda place. I'm from Illinois, which gets a good influx of Southern folks and people from elsewhere. Most of the people I know from around here to drink liquor instead. Vodka and rum are the most common.

[One Malaysia]

So what do you think, NSG? Would it make the South a better place if they drank more? For those of you who do not share my preference for the North, do you think the North would be a better place if we drank less? Does it surprise you that the North and West are "boozier" than the South?

Drinking is never a solution, it's a temporary get away from the real issues. IMHO.

[The Nuclear Fist]

So what do you think, NSG? Would it make the South a better place if they drank more? For those of you who do not share my preference for the North, do you think the North would be a better place if we drank less? Does it surprise you that the North and West are "boozier" than the South?

Drinking is never a solution, it's a temporary get away from the real issues. IMHO.

But what a fantastic getaway it is.

[One Malaysia]

But what a fantastic getaway it is.

Well that one I have to agree.

[Paixao]

Firstly, prove the paranoia thing. Secondly, correlation does not equal causation. Just because the north drinks more is meaningless.
And Saddam Hussein was not a minor threat. He invaded Kuwait.

Remind me, how close is Kuwait to America? XD

Yes you got some oil from there, big deal. You've still got Saudi et all.

[One Malaysia]

Firstly, prove the paranoia thing. Secondly, correlation does not equal causation. Just because the north drinks more is meaningless.
And Saddam Hussein was not a minor threat. He invaded Kuwait.

Remind me, how close is Kuwait to America? XD

Yes you got some oil from there, big deal. You've still got Saudi et all.

Which was also threatened by Saddam. Iraq invaded Saudi from Southern Kuwait.