• nahuse@sh.itjust.works
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    7 months ago

    Looking at how it’s distributed, I wonder if it’s a correlation with dry (as in, alcohol sales are restricted) counties and states. For example. I don’t think Utah even allows alcohol sales (over 5% beer) on Sundays.

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      7 months ago

      Using Wyoming as an example, all of the red spots are cities, everything else is miles upon miles of mostly empty BLM land. That one spot that’s super red? Laramie, the town with the only 4 year university in the state, with a direct path to Fort Collins just south of that, another massive college city. You can also see the Grand Valley lit up because of all of the Mormons stopping in Delta or Grand Junction to buy booze to bring home (dry counties abound in Utah and Idaho)

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      7 months ago

      Not just that, there are a ton of counties that don’t allow liquor sales period, you can see all of that drinking concentrated right in Grand Junction, CO. Straight shot to Moab and SLC.