Not sure what to make of this report but the definitive list of drunkest cities in America was released by a fitness organization today which proves that the Tea Party is in name only. Yes ladies and gentlemen, I’m afraid to say that the drunkest cities in the United States are GOP strongholds.
What are we to think? This is a Right Pundits open talk thread where you are welcome to discuss this unfathomable phenomenon or anything else on your mind, but I am concerned for the safety of conservatives in our hometowns. Very concerned.
Here is the top ten list of cities that do way too much drinking according to Men’s Health Magazine:
1. Fresno, California
2. Reno, Nevada
3. Billings, Montana
4. Riverside, California
5. Austin, Texas
6. St. Louis, Missouri
7. San Antonio, Texas
8. Lubbock, Texas
9. Tucson, Arizona
10. Bakersfield, California
Okay, I get St. Louis but every other city is among the most red of the red cities in the country. What’s wrong with this picture?
To make matters more frightening here are the bottom ten cities of least drinking in the country.
91. Manchester, New Hampshire
92. Fort Wayne, Indiana
93. New York City, New York
94. Durham, North Carolina
95. Newark, New Jersey
96. Miami, Florida
97. Salt Lake City, Utah
98. Rochester, New York
99. Yonkers, New York
100. Boston, Massachusetts
That’s right. Democrat strongholds, all of them. Obama voters. Oh except for Salt Lake City but that one doesn’t count.
Read more here and here and here.
The rankings are based on various metrics. How many drunk drivers were arrested per capita…. how many winos were picked out of the gutter… who died from rotting livers… how many bars per block. You get the idea.
Searching for explanations from our readers as to why the drunkest cities in America are more conservative than the most sober cities. Do conservatives drink more? Or do Democrats who have a lot of Republican neighbors drink more? By the way this guy in the video looks drunk too.
February 6th, 2010 at 3:42 am
Okay, I get St. Louis but every other city is among the most red of the red cities in the country. What’s wrong with this picture?
I’m guessing St. Louis is a blue city (you know, more drunken democrats) but the reason that nine of the top ten are rethuglican strongholds is that no one can stand it when some Quaker (like Right Pundits) lords over you with unrighteous indignation. You rethuglicans are so good, so perfect and anyone who doesn’t tow the party line (I’m more perfect than the guy behind me) is in need of moral intervention
by the folks who run this website. Expect the top nine cities to now drink even more because no one listens to a bunch of self-righteous idiots who claim they’ve cornered the market on “correct” behavior. You idiots are like those “good” parents who grounds their daughter because they saw her at the mall eating lunch with a Mexican and then she sneaks out late at night, gets picked up by a bunch of rich redneck young rethuglicans, gets pregnant, then blames the baby on that poor Mexican.
Expect the drinking to go up in the top nine cities because true self-righteous indignation has never been a part of any rethuglican party platform (i.e. the abortion rider in the RNC’s insurance policy, Nixon, Newt, Rush’s drug addiction, Beck’s homosexual tendencies, Malkin’s butch dyke perspective, elitist scum who get away with criminal behavior because they own the local judges, Stanford, that idiot Senator they caught giving free bj’s at the airport, Scott Brown the nude model, Ensign, the list goes on and on and on).
Rather than being the epitome of moral stability the rethuglican party is the party of no. No morality, no common sense, no compassion, and no brains because they think with their lower extremities.
Republicans: the party of no progress.
February 6th, 2010 at 4:19 am
McCain, you’re looking at this from the wrong perspective. If your a liberal in a Republican stronghold what else would you do but drown your sorrows every night.
February 6th, 2010 at 4:48 am
@McCain,
Agree totally with fm.
@mizdaice,
Two words: Teddy Kennedy. Wasn’t he lit like 3/4 of the time?
February 6th, 2010 at 4:56 am
Austin Tx is a bastion of libtards in a Red State.
February 6th, 2010 at 5:03 am
More reason to drink Fantom.
St. Louis has the same problem. A blue city trapped in a red state. They’d move the whole city across the river if they could.
February 6th, 2010 at 5:07 am
“Two words: Teddy Kennedy. Wasn’t he lit like 3/4 of the time?”
and asleep the other 1/4?
February 6th, 2010 at 5:07 am
Likewise the data is skewed by the metrics used. The number of DUI’s and wino’s picked up out of the gutter would be higher in conservative areas due to diligent policing. Whereas , say Boston, they let a passed out Kennedy lie. Also places with public transit would have fewer DUI’s.
I would think the only metric needed measured is amount of Alcohol consumed on a per capita basis.
Here is some rather dated data on that http://www.unusualmaps.com/Consumption.html
February 6th, 2010 at 5:35 am
@McCain,
BTW, was that photo at the top taken at Pelosi’s house, or is it just another non-descript floozie liberal trying to medicate her feelings of shame and guilt for being a liberal?
February 6th, 2010 at 6:12 am
Donald and flyingmonkey,
Didn’t anyone ever tell you it’s not nice to speak badly of the dead?
BTW the photo looks a lot like some bimbo prize wife who has to self medicate in order to put up with her right leaning immoral husband. Hiking in the Appalacians, yeah right.
February 6th, 2010 at 7:09 am
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February 6th, 2010 at 7:33 am
It makes the statement, “You’re driving me to drink” come alive, huh?
February 6th, 2010 at 8:03 am
@mizdaice,
As a Covenant Christian, that rationale makes no sense. When you’re dead, you’re either with Jesus or you’re not. My words here this side of Heaven have no bearing on their destinies.
Kennedy is dead, period. Bid deal. Better people than him die every day.
BTW, shouldn’t you be drinking right now, yourself? I mean, what with November coming and your liberals facing massive defeats…
My advice: Start drinking now, smoke some weed, maybe pop some old-school valium, and just let your Socialist agendas face accountability. We’ll still be here if you need any comforting.
February 6th, 2010 at 9:35 am
I live in St. Louis.
Last night my husband and I had a party (with approx. 15 people). They were all drunk by the end of the evening, having consumed half the hard liquor bottles I purchased, two cases of beer, and several bottles of wine. This was not some rockin party with loud music and dancing; it was very controlled with lots of loud talking and laughing. And, apparently, lots of drinking (not so much on my husband’s and my part; we tend to stop at 2 or 3 b/c we’re too old to handle hangovers.)
I don’t know what to make of this report, but I will say this. St. Louis is a very Catholic town. Our friends are mostly Catholic — and as my mother used to say, “Catholics love to drink and smoke because they can’t do anything else.”
Food for thought.
February 6th, 2010 at 9:39 am
I meant to say Catholics aren’t ALLOWED to do anything else.
February 6th, 2010 at 9:49 am
“Didn’t anyone ever tell you it’s not nice to speak badly of the dead?”
But his name will live forever on the health care bi…
Oh, wait!!!
Sorry.
February 6th, 2010 at 10:26 am
I think that saying Ted Kennedy was lit 3/4 of the time was being generous. I think that number was too low. So no, I don’t think that Donald was speaking ill of the dead.
February 6th, 2010 at 11:01 am
Working with addicts an alcoholics for quite while now I notice that many drugs(alcohol being one of them) are a matter of cultural or demographic influence. The republican is usually the one whos been raised in an alcohol permissive household while the moonbats seem to be the one recovering from everything but alcohol.
We cling to our bibles, guns and Jack while the moonbats cling to their Atlas Shrugged bongs, valium and syringes.
February 6th, 2010 at 11:12 am
Missdaze:
“Expect the drinking to go up in the top nine cities because true self-righteous indignation has never been a part of any rethuglican party platform (i.e. the abortion rider in the RNC’s insurance policy, Nixon, Newt, Rush’s drug addiction, Beck’s homosexual tendencies, Malkin’s butch dyke perspective:
Ah yes, the party of tolerance and acceptance.
Might you have some homosexual tendencies ? because its usually only a dyke that could gather/reckognize any butchyness fron Malkin if she had any.
And please, Beck having homosexual tendencies ? we all have ” tendencies”. I’ll assume your asinine gathering of this conclusion comes from him crying over caring and fear for what his country is facing.
well, I’ve never bobbed on a knob in my life but this 6ft. 250 lb. man cried his a$$ off for 2 days because I had to put my soul mate best buddy Pug down a couple days ago.. does that mean i have homosexual tendencies ?
You’re a fckn moron of a calibre beyond any scale
February 6th, 2010 at 12:52 pm
@mizdaice,
..that idiot Senator they caught giving free bj’s at the airport..
Hey, you leave Barney Frank outta this!
February 6th, 2010 at 1:20 pm
“Catholics love to drink and smoke because they can’t do anything else.”
your mom lied …
haven’t you noticed the large numbers of catholics around?
February 6th, 2010 at 1:22 pm
“Didn’t anyone ever tell you it’s not nice to speak badly of the dead?”
I think of Paul Wellstone and Coretta Scott King and wonder if it’s more disrespectful to speak badly of the dead or to use their corpses as props for impromptu, agenda driven political rallies.
February 6th, 2010 at 1:31 pm
“Didn’t anyone ever tell you it’s not nice to speak badly of the dead?”
ted kennedy used to tell mary joe kopechne jokes
February 7th, 2010 at 6:53 pm
Micky, you should have put away your own bongs and syringes during your liberal public-education upbringing and paid more attention. Your grammar/typing is simply atrocious. My liberal friends are infinitely more articulate than you seem to be.
As for Conservatives being the bigger imbibers, well, the 10 states in our great union that rate dead last in education standards and general prosperity are also largely Conservative — those great Southern states. Texas voters, in fact, are overwhelmingly against health reform, but about 25% of the whole state’s population doesn’t even have any insurance! Dumb-asses — that’s how to explain the Conservative tendency to drink to excess, vote against their own interests, and in general not have any shame in sharing their misspelled diatribes on the Internet.
Now I’ll get back to my vegan snack.
February 7th, 2010 at 7:26 pm
Great Michelle,your grammaticl expertise doent mean you could find your a$$hole with a flashlight never mind refute my point.
Which is that the majority of those in rehab or detox I’ve noticed all carry that liberal “Im a victim” mentallity that justifies their continued use. Most who’ve been drinking their whole lives more than not are just victims of a tradition
February 7th, 2010 at 7:35 pm
Your vegan snack ?
What, those “Grennies” dog treats in the shape of marital aids ? The green sex websites offer a complete line of those things.
Nowdays I guess when you’re done with your tools instead of posing a threat to mother earth or lighting up the traditional smoke you can just chomp away ?
Trust me lady, I might be horrible speller and typist but I seriously doubt that you’ve typed or scribed half as much documentation for Queens, Kings, presidents and celebrities as much as I have prepared meals for them and on occasion served them as well.