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Yeah I got away to Amsterdam whenever I could, also a couple of times when I was working in Belgium for 3 months.

Maybe homemade Moonshine flies under the radar? 

I imagine there's some pretty heavy religious influence in those numbers for W. Virginia and Kentucky.  You can see more green all through the bible belt.  It's interesting that it fades as you get closer to the coastline in many of those states.

Which reminds me-- how do you keep a Baptist from drinking all of your beer on a fishing trip?

Invite another Baptist!

Which reminds me-- how do you keep a Baptist from drinking all of your beer on a fishing trip?

Invite another Baptist!

As a Baptist friend use to say they don't reconize each other in the liquor store,go figure

Is San Diego WAY MORE alcohol infused than Las Vegas, in your experience?

Honestly, I don't know. I was just making a joke about Wisconsin. 

I will say that San Diego might have some things going for it when it comes to alcohol. There are TONS of breweries in the entire county. They have their own wine region (Temecula). There's a high military presence. 

And yes, the bits of Vegas that I've seen seem to have liquor everywhere... But that's because I basically have only really seen the Strip. Clark County is pretty big, and there might be more of the Mormon influence coming down from Utah than maybe you'd think if all you look at is the tourists getting hammered all the time... 

So... Honestly I'm as surprised by you that Clark County isn't considered one of the higher ones on the map. But I can think of reasons why our perception of the entire county might be skewed by a couple of mile stretch along Las Vegas Blvd. 

I heard that dry counties in Georgia (of which there are none now I think) stayed that way because of the Baptists and the moonshiners both donating to whichever sheriff ignored the latter the most.  I attended a Southern Baptist church religiously when I was a kid, but it was a suburban church.  When we visited my grandparents in east Tennessee we'd go to their rural church, which was ... different.  My relatives there did not drink, at all, ever.  

Communion in a Baptist church usually is rare and involved grape juice and saltine crackers.  My wife used to assist in preparing for communion in her Catholic church (which was weekly of course) and it was diluted cheap wine and some kind of bread wafer the priest would hold up and then separate into pieces.  My wife only partook of the wafer part.  They have closed communion so I didn't partake.  

Small southern towns would have cliques between Baptists, Methodists, Presbyterians, and "other".